Antique Print of Natives from Peru, South America, ca.1845

Name: Antique Print of Natives from Peru, South America, ca.1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-10691
Price: 315 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 35.5 × 25.5 cm (14 × 10 in)
Condition: Good. Good with some foxing due to age. Ask for more images if needed.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru, South America
Reference: BG-10691

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

Eingeborne von Peru, Habitans de Perou, an original lithograph of c.1845 from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stämme, lettered "No. 35 b" at the top and signed "Lith. v. J. Honegger" at the lower right. The sheet is printed in black on a creamy paper, with the title in German and French beneath.

Four head and shoulders portraits are arranged in two rows on the plate. At the upper left a young woman is shown with a long braid hanging over her shoulder, and the figure at the lower left shows a man in profile with his hair gathered in a braid. The two figures at the right face the viewer directly, and both wear crosses suspended on cords around their necks. The subjects wear plain dark tunics, and the faces are drawn in careful tonal gradations typical of the early lithographic work in natural history.

Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777 to 1861) was a Swiss physician and naturalist and became professor of natural history at the University of Zurich in 1833. His book classified the peoples of the world according to the scientific ideas of the time.

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