Arecoideae Palm Trees in Serra dos Órgãos, Brazil, circa 1861

Name: Arecoideae Palm Trees in Serra dos Órgãos, Brazil, circa 1861
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13748-69
Price: 145 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1861
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 33.5 × 24.5 cm (13.2 × 9.6 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-13748-69

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Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
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Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

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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

Oil palms in the Serra dos Órgãos mountains of Brazil, a large chromolithograph dated about 1861 and lettered "L'Elaeis guineensis dans les montagnes des Orgues (Serra dos Orgaos) au Brésil". The imprint names Louis van Houtte of Ghent.

A tall palm stands at the left with feathery fronds and a bunch of fruit, and a dark leafy shrub grows at its foot. In the middle distance a rough thatched hut with an open frame stands beside a dirt track, where a man in a blue shirt and hat leads a mule, with two more pack mules grazing near the house. Behind rise the bare, craggy peaks of the Serra dos Órgãos, pink and orange in the light of a yellow sky, with banks of clouds above and wooded slopes below.

The sheet is a landscape in which the palm is the botanical subject, and it combines the exactness of a plant plate with the setting of a view. Van Houtte, a Belgian horticulturist and nurseryman, had himself traveled in Brazil in his early career.

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