Brazilian Market Scene – Poultry Seller and Maize Vendor, c.1845

Name: Brazilian Market Scene – Poultry Seller and Maize Vendor, c.1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13682-21
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23 × 30 cm (9.1 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Strong, clean impression with bright original hand-coloring. Moderate foxing mainly in margins; image area clear and fresh. Wide margins preserved.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-13682-21

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

Market types of Brazil, an original hand-colored lithograph titled "Amerique du Sud, Bresil", from Le Monde en Estampes: Types et Costumes des Principaux Peuples de l'Univers, published in Paris around 1845-1850 by Amedee Bedelet. The sheet is lettered "Fossey del." and "Bocquin lith.", with the imprint "Imp. Lemercier Paris".

Six figures are captioned beneath the image: "Marchand de Volailles", "Charruas civilize", "Marc. de Bestiaux", "Blanchisseuse", "Laitier" and "Marchande de mais grille". At the left, the poultry seller walks with a basket of birds balanced on his head, beside a cattle dealer in a tall hat and red sash who talks with a Charrua man in European dress, with a coil of rope and bolas at his side. At the center a washerwoman in a yellow skirt and striped shawl carries folded linen on her head, and a milkman stands behind her. At the right a seated woman grills maize on a small charcoal stove, with cobs hanging from a pole and smoke rising against a whitewashed wall and a thatched screen. An agave plant grows in the left foreground.

The plate is one of the American types in this French series of costumes by country, and it records the street trades of a Brazilian town as they were pictured in the 1840s.

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