Antique Print with Views of Cape Blanco on the Patagonia / Argentina Coast, 1749

Name: Antique Print with Views of Cape Blanco on the Patagonia / Argentina Coast, 1749
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11589-26
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1749
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 27 × 42.5 cm (10.6 × 16.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Original folding lines. Minor wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Argentina
Reference: BG-11589-26

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

Cape Blanco on the coast of Patagonia, in two views with ships of George Anson's squadron, an original copper engraving from the Dutch edition of his voyage, Reize rondsom de Werreld, published in 1749. Each panel is lettered in French and Dutch: the upper "Cap Blanc sur la Cote des Patagons, restant au S.O. a cinq Lieues de distance" with "Kaap Blanco aan de kust van Patagonia", and the lower a second "Cap Blanc" view in which the headland bears south west by south.

The upper panel is almost empty: a low flat headland lies along the horizon, beneath a sky of heavy cloud. In the lower panel the same shore stretches across the sheet as a thin ridge beyond several ships under sail, with a small boat nearby in the right foreground. The plate shows how little there was to see of this coast from the sea, and the engraver used the sky as the main source of interest.

Such profiles were drawn so that later navigators could recognize their landfall. Cape Blanco, on the Argentine coast, was one of the marks on the way south toward the Strait of Le Maire and Cape Horn.

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