Antique Print of a Ruin in Concepción 'Chile' by D'Urville, circa 1850

Name: Antique Print of a Ruin in Concepción 'Chile' by D'Urville, circa 1850
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12572
Price: 560 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 32.5 × 52 cm (12.8 × 20.5 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-12572

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

The ruins of a church at Concepción, Chile, in a tinted lithograph from Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville's Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, an expedition narrative published in Paris by Gide et Cie between 1841 and 1855. The plate is lettered "Ruines d'une Église à Concepcion (Chili)" and is marked "Atlas pittoresque" at the upper right, with the work's title at the upper left.

The view is a landscape in soft golden and gray tones. At the left a long standing wall of the ruined church, braced with timber poles and framing, rises above fallen blocks of masonry and heavy undergrowth. A tall palm stands in the center, with agave-like plants and flowers at its foot. On the right a muddy road leads away past a wooden fence toward the arches of a long bridge or aqueduct, a few low houses and a range of hills under a sky of scattered cloud. A small figure walks along the road. Credits for the artist and the lithographer are lettered below the image margins.

The plate belongs to the atlas of views that accompanied the narrative of the French naval voyage of the corvettes Astrolabe and Zélée, issued in the 1840s.

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