More about the Wood-Beach at Recife

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1533-6247|10|1|75-78

ISSN: 0003-1615

Source: The Americas, Vol.10, Iss.1, 1954-04, pp. : 75-78

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Abstract

In the october, 1949, issue of THE AMERICAS the present writer published an article on the wood-beach at Recife in Brazil as it existed in late colonial days. To this the editor very kindly added the subtitle “A Contribution to the Economic History of Brazil.” Since the article appeared I have received a number of communications from historians in Brazil and in Portugal who commented with such interest upon the subject that I feel justified in soliciting more space in THE AMERICAS in order to present a discovery I have recently made. Since it concerns the authorship of the extraordinary watercolor around which the article was written, it is of vital importance to the subject.