Antique Lithograph of the Aborigines of South America, 1882

Name: Antique Lithograph of the Aborigines of South America, 1882
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13601-2-9
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. Please study the image carefully. This print is ideal for framing.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: South America
Reference: BG-13601-2-9

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 South 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, "Aborigines of South America", is printed beneath the image, with a key to the figures.

The scene is an ethnographic group set on open grassland. Naked and fur-cloaked figures stand and sit in the foreground, among them a woman carrying a child on her back, with a horse and a dog beside them, and conical tents and a canoe in the background. The key identifies figures 1 to 3 as Botocudos of Brazil, 4 to 6 as natives of Patagonia and 7 and 8 as natives of Tierra del Fuego. The image is framed by a tinted border and printed on a wide-margined sheet of the kind used for atlas plates.

Such plates were included in atlases of the period to give readers a picture of the peoples of each continent alongside the maps. They reflect how Victorian publishers presented South American peoples to a general audience.

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