Antique Engraving of Buenos Aires, City and Harbor View, 1867

Name: Antique Engraving of Buenos Aires, City and Harbor View, 1867
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14126-17
Price: 225 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1867
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 17 × 26.3 cm (6.7 × 10.4 in)
Condition: Good. With scattered foxing and toning around the margins. The plate impression remains crisp, with excellent detail throughout. Blank verso. Please review the image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Argentina
Reference: BG-14126-17

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

The city and harbor of Buenos Aires seen from the Río de la Plata, an original steel engraving printed in Paris in the 1860s. The plate is lettered "Buenos-Ayres", drawn by Lebreton and engraved by Outhwaite, with the printer's line of Chardon.

Choppy water fills the foreground, crossed by small sailing boats, with a larger schooner at the left and a steamer at the right. The low city lies along the far shore, its skyline of church towers and domes rising above a mass of flat roofs, and a long landing pier or breakwater runs along the waterfront. Heavy clouds fill the sky.

Buenos Aires was the leading port of the Río de la Plata and the main commercial center of Argentina, and the plate shows the approach by water that most visitors from Europe would have known. It belongs to a series of South American views published around 1867.

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