Antique Engraving of Rio de Janeiro – Harbor View by Schröder & Kunike, 1830s

Name: Antique Engraving of Rio de Janeiro – Harbor View by Schröder & Kunike, 1830s
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-10100
Price: 200 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 17.8 × 24.7 cm (7 × 9.7 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition with a crisp impression and excellent tonal contrast. Some light toning and faint foxing spots are visible in the margins but do not affect the image. The paper is strong with wide margins preserved.
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-10100

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

Rio de Janeiro seen from the water, an original steel engraving issued in the 1830s from a German series of views. The plate title "Rio Janeiro" is engraved below the image, with a roman plate numeral at the upper right. The engraving is printed in black on cream paper, with the artists' credits in small lettering beneath the image: it is based on a sketch of 1824 by A. Schröder, drawn by C. N. Weiss and engraved by A. Kunike.

A sailing boat leans into the wind at the left and a small rowboat with figures pulls through the swell at the center, while a spar or buoy tilts out of the waves in the foreground. Beyond the water the low line of the city extends along the shore, with fortifications, church towers and buildings picked out against the hills and mountains behind.

The view dates from only a few years after Brazil declared independence from Portugal in 1822, when Rio was the capital and chief port of the new empire and an object of growing curiosity for European readers of travel literature.

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