Antique Caribbean Island Group Panorama - Dutch West Indies Seascape, 1888

Name: Antique Caribbean Island Group Panorama - Dutch West Indies Seascape, 1888
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14171-13
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 19 × 28 cm (7.5 × 11 in)
Condition: Good. Good original condition. Light overall age toning throughout the sheet. Very minor scattered foxing visible in the margins. No tears or losses observed. Image areas remain clean and well preserved.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: The West Indies
Reference: BG-14171-13

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

Two island profiles seen from the sea, an original lithograph from Karl Martin's Bericht uber eine Reise nach Niederlandisch West-Indien, published at Leiden by E. J. Brill in 1888. The plate is lettered "Tab. VII" at the upper right and is printed in gray with a buff tint stone, with the two views numbered 1 and 2.

View 1 is a long, narrow strip showing a row of low rocky islets and small peaks rising from a flat sea under scattered clouds. View 2, below it, is a wider panorama in which a line of steep, flat-topped cliffs at the left is separated by open water from a broad, dome-shaped island at the right, with a single small sailing boat in the middle distance. Fine horizontal hatching describes the water and the sky.

Profile views of this kind were drawn so that islands and coasts could be recognized from a ship and compared with the geological observations in the report. The old description places the group between Trinidad and the Venezuelan mainland. Martin, a professor of geology at Leiden, included such views among the plates of his expedition report.

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