Antique Print of a Man of Tierra del Fuego by Cook, '1803'

Name: Antique Print of a Man of Tierra del Fuego by Cook, '1803'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11487-103
Price: 225 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1803
Maker: J. Cook (Artist)
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 41.5 × 27.5 cm (16.3 × 10.8 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, please study images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-11487-103

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

A man of Christmas Sound in Tierra del Fuego, a copper engraving from the Dutch edition of Captain Cook's voyages, "Reizen rondom de Waereld," translated by J. D. Pasteur and published by Honkoop, Allart and Van Cleef, 1803. The plate is lettered in Dutch "Man van Kersmis Kanaal op het Vuurland" below the image and carries a plate number at the upper right.

The portrait shows a man head and shoulders in a vertical frame, with thick, tangled hair falling about his face and a dark cloak draped over his shoulders, leaving the chest bare, where a few lines mark the skin. The background is lightly shaded. The image is a small engraved vignette set low within a broad, clean plate margin, a format common to the plates of the Dutch Cook edition.

Kersmis Kanaal is the Dutch form of Christmas Sound, on the southwest coast of Tierra del Fuego. Cook's ships called there during the second voyage, and the people encountered at the far tip of South America were among the groups engraved for the voyage accounts, which were translated and reissued across Europe.

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