Antique Lithograph of the Aborigines of North America, 1882

1882 · Views & Engravings

Antique Lithograph of the Aborigines of North America, 1882

Name: Antique Lithograph of the Aborigines of North America, 1882
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13601-2-10
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1882
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 30 × 38 cm (11.8 × 15 in)
Condition: Good. The print is in good condition, considering its age. Some creases but no tears. One light finger-soil dirt print below the image to the left. Please study the image carefully. This print is ideal for framing.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13601-2-10

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

Aborigines of North America, a color lithograph from Blackie's Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World, published by Blackie and Son (Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin; London office at Old Bailey) in 1882. The plate title is printed beneath the image, with a key to the figures.

Seven figures stand in a group on open prairie, in fringed hide clothing, some with feathered headdresses and one holding a shield, with tipis visible in the distance. The key names them as 1, Iroquois; 2, Assiniboin; 3, Crow; 4, Pawnee woman; 5, Assiniboin in gala dress; 6, Dakota or Sioux warrior; and 7, Dakota or Sioux woman. The key lettering as printed gives several of these names in older spellings. The image sits within a tinted double border on a wide-margined atlas sheet.

Plates of this kind were included in atlases of the period to show readers the peoples of each continent alongside the maps. They record how a British publisher of the early 1880s presented Native peoples of the United States to a general audience.

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