Brazil in Soft Greens, St. Fidelis Jesuit Mission View, Aquatint 1821

Name: Brazil in Soft Greens, St. Fidelis Jesuit Mission View, Aquatint 1821
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-01539
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1821
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 24.2 × 34.4 cm (9.5 × 13.5 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition for its age. Light overall toning and minor surface soiling consistent with early-19th-century works. No major defects observed. Please study the scan carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-01539

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

The Jesuit mission of St. Fidelis on the Paraíba River in Brazil, a hand-colored aquatint engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Il Costume Antico e Moderno, l'America, in the Italian edition published in Milan in 1821. The sheet has no title line in the image, and the plate number is engraved at the upper right.

A broad river runs across the foreground, with a man paddling a dugout canoe at the right. Beyond it, a mission church with a small tiered cupola stands in a clearing on the rise, and a few low huts with red tile roofs sit scattered at either side. Wooded hills climb behind in overlapping tones of soft green, with a few palms standing along the ridge, and the sky is pale and clouded. The soft aquatint grain gives the greens and blues of the hills their gentle gradation.

Ferrario's work was a large illustrated survey of the dress, customs and buildings of the peoples of the world, issued in Milan from about 1815 to 1826, and its volume on the Americas drew on travel accounts for its views.

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