Cincinnati Costume Print – Antique Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1854

Name: Cincinnati Costume Print – Antique Hand-Colored Lithograph, 1854
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14120-18
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1854
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 27.2 × 18 cm (10.7 × 7.1 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Light foxing and mild toning in the margins. Image clean with vivid, well-preserved colors. Plate mark visible. Wide margins intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Ohio
Reference: BG-14120-18

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

A man in a wide hat and cape holding a lute, a hand-colored lithograph from the Album des Voyages Anciens et Modernes, published in 1854 by Martial Ardant Frères. The plate is lettered "Cincinnati" in script beneath the image, within a double-ruled border on wide cream margins.

The standing figure wears a gray wide-brimmed hat, a light blue jacket over a yellow waistcoat with a bow tie, white trousers, black shoes and a blue sash at the waist, with a brown cape hanging from his shoulders. He raises one hand and holds a lute or mandolin in the other. Behind him a small house and trees stand in a landscape of open grass, and a distant figure in a cloak walks along the path.

The caption names the American city, but the costume, the sash and the instrument read as a Spanish or Latin type rather than an Ohio one, so the plate is best understood as a costume figure in a French series of travel views rather than a portrait of the city's inhabitants. The color is carefully applied by hand over the lithograph.

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