Antique Print of Gold Washing in Brazil by Payne '1847'

Name: Antique Print of Gold Washing in Brazil by Payne '1847'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-10098
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1847
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 27 × 20 cm (10.6 × 7.9 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, shows minor wear and creasing. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-10098

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

Gold washing in Brazil, an original steel engraving from Payne's Universum, published in 1847. The plate is titled "Gold Washing in the Brazils" in script beneath the image and carries a London imprint at the foot.

The scene fills a narrow upright frame. A steep, wooded ravine opens at the center, with a waterfall at the left and another at the right, and palm trees against the cliffs. At the bottom of the picture a crowd of workers stands in and beside the stream, some bent over to wash gravel in pans and troughs, others at the right raising tools above their heads, while overseers and figures near a large boulder look on. Fine engraved shading gives the rocks and the vegetation a deep tonal range.

Brazil's gold fields in Minas Gerais drew thousands of enslaved workers and prospectors from the eighteenth century onward, and the engraving presents this labor to a European public of armchair travelers.

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