Antique Print of Natives of the Great South Patagonia, circa 1760

Name: Antique Print of Natives of the Great South Patagonia, circa 1760
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-04406
Price: 155 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1760
Maker: Jakob van der Schley
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26 × 18.5 cm (10.2 × 7.3 in)
Period: Colonial America
Places: Argentina, Chile
Reference: BG-04406

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

The inhabitants of the Strait of Magellan, called Patagons, shown with their boats and huts, an original copper engraving of about 1760 by Jakob van der Schley. The caption is lettered in French and Dutch: "Habitans du Detroit de Magellan, nommes Patagons, leurs Barques, leurs Chaumines" and "Inwoonders van de Straat Magellan, genaamt Patagons, hunne Schuiten, Hutjes".

In the foreground a man draped in a cloak stands beside a bare-chested figure, with two more seated at the right under tall fir trees. Behind them a bark is drawn up on the shore with several figures sitting in it, and a thatched shelter stands beyond, near a small fire. Jagged mountains with snow in the clefts rise at the back. The border is a double ruled frame typical of the plates in eighteenth century travel collections.

Van der Schley, an Amsterdam draftsman and engraver who studied with Bernard Picart, made many of the plates for the Dutch editions of the large French voyages collection, which made accounts of the southern tip of the continent widely known in Europe.

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