Antique Engraving of Inca Antiquities from Peru by Jorge Juan & Ulloa, 1748

Name: Antique Engraving of Inca Antiquities from Peru by Jorge Juan & Ulloa, 1748
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14303-36
Price: 430 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1748
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 26.5 × 36.5 cm (10.4 × 14.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition considering its age. Original central fold as issued. General age-related toning, occasional light foxing and minor handling wear. Please study the image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14303-36

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

Pre-Columbian objects from Peruvian burial sites, an original copperplate engraving from Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa's Relación Histórica del Viaje a la América Meridional, published in Madrid in 1748. The plate is numbered "Lámina XV" at the upper right, and a long Spanish title heads the sheet: "Explicación de las piezas, labradas por los Indios Gentiles que se encuentran en sus Guacas ó Sepulcros".

Below the title the plate lays out a scatter of objects, each marked with a letter keyed to the explanatory text above. At the upper left a seated mummified figure with a bundled body rests on a rock. Across the center are a mound, a large oval plate, a ceremonial axe with a long handle and a vine-like ornament, and circular and oval discs. Below them are axe heads of several shapes, a small mortar-like vessel, double-bodied jars, long pins with decorative heads (one with a star-shaped head), and small ornaments.

Juan and Ulloa traveled in Peru and Ecuador between 1735 and 1745, members of the French-Spanish Geodesic Mission that measured a degree of latitude at the equator. Their account was among the first published to illustrate Andean antiquities.

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