Antique Print of Native American Indians on a Prairie in Arkansas, c. 1850

Name: Antique Print of Native American Indians on a Prairie in Arkansas, c. 1850
Brand: Meyer
SKU: BG-11671-64
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Maker: Meyer
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 18.5 × 26 cm (7.3 × 10.2 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning. Shows some foxing and wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Arkansas
Reference: BG-11671-64

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 mounted party on the prairie, titled "Prairie am Arkansas," an original steel engraving from Meyer's Universum, published about 1850. The plate is numbered at the upper right and carries the Bibliographisches Institut imprint beneath the image.

Two riders in the foreground dominate the scene: one, a man in a feathered headdress and blanket on a dark horse, rides at a walk along a muddy track, while a second figure behind him rides at speed and waves an arm. Tall grasses and wild plants stand thick at the right and a pool of water lies at the right edge. The ground flattens to a wide horizon with a distant plume of smoke or camp, and beyond it a sunburst breaks through the clouds in thin rays across the sky. The engraving is in black and white with fine shading, and the artist's credit is lettered at the left foot.

Meyer's Universum was a German illustrated work of steel-engraved views of the whole world, and its plates of America show the plains as European readers pictured them.

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