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Birth
1821 (Beggarsbush, Dublin, Ireland)
Death
1875 (Oakland, California)
Lived/Active
California/District Of Columbia
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travel book illustration, frontier painting
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Painted in Latin America
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| A peripatetic illustrator for the United States government, John Ross
Browne also illustrated and wrote his own travel books. Combining
personal and official travel experiences during the 1840s, 50s and 60s,
Browne recorded adventures in gold-mining California, Apache country in
Arizona, sailing around Cape Horn in South America, writing reports in
Texas and New Orleans, sightseeing in the Middle East and Europe and
serving his government in China. Many of his writings with
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