Antique Print of the Indigenous Botocudos of Brazil by H. Berghaus, 1855

Name: Antique Print of the Indigenous Botocudos of Brazil by H. Berghaus, 1855
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-09727
Price: 110 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1855
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 25.7 × 16.6 cm (10.1 × 6.5 in)
Condition: Good. Minor fading. Age-related toning. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-09727

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

Two Botocudo portraits from Brazil, an original color print from the first volume of the Dutch edition of "De Volken van den Aardbodem" by Dr. Heinrich Berghaus, published by G. B. van Goor in Gouda in 1855. The plate is lettered "Botocudos."

Two heads are placed one above the other on the sheet, the upper seen from the front and the lower in profile. Both men have short dark hair and wear large circular disks in the ears and the lower lip, from which the Botocudo people took their name, and both are marked with small red lines across the face and shoulders. The lower figure wears a blue bead necklace. The skin is tinted in warm ochre washes over a fine engraved outline, with the plain paper left as the ground.

Berghaus, a German geographer, organized his survey of the world's peoples around portrait and costume plates like this, and the Dutch edition of 1855 brought them to readers in the Netherlands. The Botocudos were a people of the interior of eastern Brazil, much written about by European travelers of the early nineteenth century.

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