Antique Print of Natives of Bahia and Rio by Honegger (1845)

Name: Antique Print of Natives of Bahia and Rio by Honegger (1845)
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-10709
Price: 280 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 35 × 26 cm (13.8 × 10.2 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-10709

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

Black men and women of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, an original lithograph by J. Honegger from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stamme, published in 1845. The sheet is printed in black on white paper, numbered "No. 14" at the top, with the bilingual title below: "Neger u. Negerin v. Bahia, Negerin v. Rio" in German and "Negre et Negresse de Bahia, Negresse de Rio" in French.

Three figures are grouped in a landscape. At the left a man in a striped shirt and a cap sits on a rock with a platter of fish at his feet. In the center a woman in a head wrap and a striped shawl stands with her hands at her waist, and at the right another woman balances a large basket of pineapples and other fruit on her head while carrying a child on her back and a long stick in her hand. The plate is signed "Fuchs del." and "Lith. v. Honegger".

Schinz's work was a large natural history of the human races, and its plates record the costume and occupations of street life in Brazilian cities as seen by European observers.

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