Antique Print of a Female Indian of Puebla Mexico by H. Berghaus, 1855

Name: Antique Print of a Female Indian of Puebla Mexico by H. Berghaus, 1855
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-09720
Price: 155 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1855
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 25.7 × 16.6 cm (10.1 × 6.5 in)
Condition: Good. Minor fading. Age-related toning. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-09720

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

An Indian woman of Puebla, Mexico, an original color print from the first volume of the Dutch edition of "De Volken van den Aardbodem" by Dr. Heinrich Berghaus, published by G. B. van Goor in Gouda in 1855. The plate is lettered in Dutch "Indiaansche Vrouw van Puebla."

A single standing figure fills the sheet, set against a pale tinted ground with a soft cast shadow at her feet. She wears a long striped shawl drawn over her head and shoulders, a white blouse, and a full blue skirt with a broad yellow patterned band at the hem, with blue slippers, and she rests one hand on a low ledge holding a small orange fruit. The costume colors are applied in bright washes, so the dress stands out against the plain paper.

Berghaus, a German geographer, compiled his ethnographic survey of the peoples of the world as a series of costume and type portraits, and the Dutch edition issued these plates for readers in the Netherlands. Puebla, southeast of Mexico City, was a major city of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico.

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