Campeche Mexico Engraving with Indigenous Figures by Allard Van der Aa, c1720

Name: Campeche Mexico Engraving with Indigenous Figures by Allard Van der Aa, c1720
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14190
Price: 550 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: circa 1720
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 36 × 45.5 cm (14.2 × 17.9 in)
Condition: Excellent. Condition; crisp impression, clean paper, wide margins, no tears or repairs.
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-14190

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

Campeche in New Spain, an original engraving published at Leiden by Pieter van der Aa after Carel Allard, around 1720. The small framed vignette sits in the center of a large sheet with wide blank margins, and a title banner appears across the sky.

Two local figures stand in the foreground on a bare shore. The man at the left wears a feathered cap and a short tunic with a cape of hide, and he carries a long paddle-shaped club and a staff. The man at the right is wrapped in a long cloak with a round shield or bundle at his side. Behind them a fortified town with towers, flags and ramparts stands on the water's edge, with a ship at anchor in front of it and hills rising at the right. The engraving is in line and hatching alone, without coloring.

Pieter van der Aa's collections of voyages and travel accounts often paired costume figures with a view of the place being described, and this plate follows that pattern for Campeche, a Spanish port on the Gulf coast of the Yucatan peninsula.

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