Antique Print of a Native of Araucanía by Prichard, '1843'

Name: Antique Print of a Native of Araucanía by Prichard, '1843'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12284-11
Price: 135 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1843
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 21.5 × 13 cm (8.5 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-12284-11

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 woman of Araucania in Chile, an original hand-colored print dated 1843, from the Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme comprenant des recherches sur l'influence des agens physiques et moraux (..) by J. C. Prichard. The title "Araucanien (Chili)" is lettered beneath the portrait, and the engraver's signature appears at the lower right of the image.

The portrait is a bust view, showing the sitter facing forward with long dark hair parted at the center. She wears a woven garment with a patterned collar and a broad border of diamond and stripe designs in green and red, and the face is tinted warm brown with touches of red on the lips. The background is left blank, in the manner of the ethnographic plates of the period.

The Araucanians, or Mapuche, lived in the south of Chile, and the plate belongs to a series in Prichard's book that set out the different peoples of the world as types, a common approach in the ethnology of the 1840s.

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