1757 · Native Peoples
1757 Engraving of Inuit & Indigenous Peoples – Hudson Bay & Arctic Canoe Scene
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€140 · dollar price at today's exchange rate
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- Date
- 1757
- Kind
- Native Peoples
- Size
- 25 × 18.2 cm (9.8 × 7.2 in)
- Condition
- Good. Well-preserved with clear plate impressions and strong details. Some light toning and minor edge wear, consistent with age.
- Period
- Colonial America
- Places
- Canada
- Reference
- BG-14038-79
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.
Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured.
Delivery and import charges.
About this piece
Eskimos of Hudson Bay, a copperplate engraving of 1757 from the Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome XIV, No. VIII), with two scenes on one sheet and a pencil note reading "Canada".
The upper scene, "Un Esquimau dans son Canot", shows a man paddling a long narrow kayak with a double-bladed paddle through choppy water, with a rocky coast and mountains behind him. The lower scene is lettered "Esquimaux du côté du Nord-Ouest de la Baye de Hudson". A man carrying a bow and a woman holding a child on her back stand in front of a domed stone hut, and conical skin tents appear in the distance, along with a wooden structure at the right.
Both scenes are enclosed in a ruled frame. The engraving offers an eighteenth-century European picture of the Inuit of the Hudson Bay coast, built from voyagers' accounts of the search for the Northwest Passage.