Aruba Landscape & Mountain Views - Dutch West Indies by Karl Martin, 1888

Name: Aruba Landscape & Mountain Views - Dutch West Indies by Karl Martin, 1888
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14171-21, -22
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Kind: Maps
Size: 19 × 28 cm (7.5 × 11 in)
Condition: Good. Both original lithographs are in very good antique condition. Even overall age toning consistent with late 19th-century paper. Light scattered foxing, mainly confined to the outer margins. Images remain clean and well preserved with strong clarity.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: The Lesser Antilles, The West Indies
Reference: BG-14171-21, -22

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 landscape views of Aruba, an original pair of lithographs from Karl Martin's Bericht uber eine Reise nach Niederlandisch West-Indien, published at Leiden by E. J. Brill in 1888. The plates are lettered "Tab. XV" and "Tab. XVI" at the upper right and are printed in gray with a buff tint stone.

Tab. XV shows a dry valley between low hills, its floor covered with scrub, cactus and bushes, with a few palms in the middle distance and scattered boulders in the foreground. Tab. XVI is a wider coastal view in which a single large conical hill rises from a flat plain above a curving shoreline, with a cliff-edged terrace and a line of low vegetation in the middle ground. Columnar cacti and two spreading trees stand along the foreground, and clouds gather above the summit.

Aruba's dry climate and its volcanic and limestone ground are the subject of Martin's geological report, and these landscapes show what the island looked like to him in the 1880s. The plates sit alongside the geological map of the island, which names the hills and settlements, in the same book.

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