Antique Print of Natives of Patagonia by Honegger (1845)

Name: Antique Print of Natives of Patagonia by Honegger (1845)
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-10724
Price: 280 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 25.5 × 35.5 cm (10 × 14 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Argentina
Reference: BG-10724

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

Natives of Patagonia, 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. 37" at the top, with the title below in German and French: "Patagonier" and "Patagon et Patagonne".

The scene shows a man and a woman standing in front of a large skin tent, both wrapped in patterned guanaco-skin cloaks, with the man holding something in his hands and his body painted at the chest. At the left a saddled horse stands tethered in the grass, and in the foreground a bush and low plants fill the corner of the picture. The plate is signed "Fuchs del." at the lower left and "J. Honegger lith." at the lower right.

Patagonia, the southern tip of South America, was an object of great curiosity to European readers at this time, and Schinz's plates bring together costume and setting of many peoples in one natural history of mankind.

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