English: This watercolor by Henry Price (1819--63) shows a silver mine operating in the Andean highlands Province of Mariquita (present-day Tolima Department, Colombia). The gold and silver mines of Mariquita produced an enormous quantity of precious metal in colonial times, beginning at least as far back as the mid-17th century. Price was a British painter and musician who was one of the draftsmen of the Comisión Corográfica (Chorographic Commission), a body tasked with studying the geography, natural resources, natural history, regional culture, and agriculture of the Republic of New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama).