Cayenne, French Guiana: Hand-Colored Engraving from La France Illustree, 1883

Name: Cayenne, French Guiana: Hand-Colored Engraving from La France Illustree, 1883
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13093-16
Price: 90 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1883
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 18.5 × 27.5 cm (7.3 × 10.8 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: The Guianas
Reference: BG-13093-16

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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.

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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

Cayenne, the chief town of French Guiana, seen from rising ground above the coast, an original wood engraving with later hand color from V.-A. Malte-Brun's La France Illustrée, 1883. The page is headed "La France Illustrée par V.-A. Malte-Brun" with a small crowned shield, the view is titled "Cayenne" beneath the image, and the sheet is numbered "103. Colonies d'Amérique et d'Océanie (1)".

The view looks across a tangle of green foliage in the foreground to the roofs of the town, a loose cluster of low wooden houses with red-brown pitched roofs and pale walls, spread among palms and trees. Beyond them the coast curves away to the left, with the sea as a flat gray band under a heavily clouded sky, and a long, low range of hills closes the view at the right. A track winds through the scrub at the lower left. The color is applied in washes of green, red-brown, gray and blue over the engraved lines.

La France Illustrée was Malte-Brun's illustrated geography of France, and this plate comes from its section on the French colonies in America and Oceania, which is why a view of a Guianese town appears among the French departments.

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