Antique Venezuela La Guaira Landscape - Dutch Colonial Tinted Lithograph, 1888

Name: Antique Venezuela La Guaira Landscape - Dutch Colonial Tinted Lithograph, 1888
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14171-25
Price: 280 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Kind: Maps
Size: 19 × 28 cm (7.5 × 11 in)
Condition: Good. Good original condition. Light overall age toning throughout the sheet. Minor scattered foxing visible in the margins. Slight edge wear consistent with age. Image remains clean and well preserved. No tears or restorations observed.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Colombia & Venezuela
Reference: BG-14171-25

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

A country road near La Guaira on the Venezuelan coast, an original lithograph from Karl Martin's Bericht uber eine Reise nach Niederlandisch West-Indien, published at Leiden by E. J. Brill in 1888. The plate is lettered "Tab. XIX" at the upper right and is printed in gray with a buff tint stone.

A rutted dirt road curves from the lower left into the middle of the picture, edged on the left by a low wall of loose stones. Beside it a small hut stands with a steeply sloping roof of palm thatch and walls of woven matting, and a chicken walks along the road near it. Dense trees and shrubs fill the sides and background, three tall coconut palms rise against a sky of soft clouds, and a small sail is visible on the sea at the far left.

La Guaira was the port of Caracas, and Martin, a professor of geology at Leiden, traveled through the region on the way to the Dutch West Indies. The view is one of the landscape plates he used to illustrate the places he visited, as a contrast to the maps and specimen plates of the report.

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