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Roberto Ivens

Ponta Delgada 1850 - Dafundo, Oeiras 1898
Portuguese explorer of Africa, geographer, colonial administrator, and an officer of the Portuguese Navy. With Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo the first Europeans to cross Central Africa, 1884-85
(Wikipedia)

José Moreiro Rato
1889

Description

Stone bust with a map and a globe.

Ponta Delgada - Roberto Ivens

Inscription(s)

commemoração
da travessia em africa
de mossamedes
a quilimani
por
BRITO CAPELLO
e
ROBERTO IVENS
1884-1885

a
ROBERTO IVENS
nascido em
ponta delgada
aos 12 de junho de
1850

os michaelenses
erigiram este monumento
no anno de 1889

Commemoration
of the crossing of Africa
from Mossamedes
to Quilimani
by
BRITO CAPELLO
and
ROBERTO IVENS
1884-1885

To
ROBERTO IVENS
born in
Ponta Delgada
on the 12th of June
1850

The Michaelenses
erected this monument
in the year 1889

There are two extra tablets, one on the pedestal for the centenary of Ivens' birth (1950) and on the wall behind the monument one from 1990.

Signature

Moreiro Rato

Sculptor

José Moreira Rato Júnior (Oeiras 1860 - Lisboa 1937), Portuguese sculptor
Literature: Alberto Cláudio Rodrigues Faria, A Colecção de Desenho Antigo da Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (1830-1935): tradição, formação e gosto; Volume III: Elementos biográficos dos artistas da Colecção (Dissertação Universidade de Lisboa, 2008) (PDF on-line).

Sources & Information

João & Rita Freitas, Estatuária Micaelense (Ponta Delgada 2007) (also on-line in three parts at blogspot).

Locatie (N 37°44'18" - W 25°40'26") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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commemoração da travessia em africa de mossamedes a quilimani por BRITO CAPELLO e ROBERTO IVENS 1884-1885	a ROBERTO IVENS nascido em ponta delgada aos 12 de junho de 1850	os michaelenses erigiram este monumento no anno de 1889
Commemoration of the crossing of Africa from Mossamedes to Quilimani by BRITO CAPELLO and ROBERTO IVENS 1884-1885	To ROBERTO IVENS born in Ponta Delgada on the 12th of June 1850	The Michaelenses erected this monument in the year 1889