Creek People of North America – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805

Name: Creek People of North America – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13696-6
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1805
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 22.5 × 13 cm (8.9 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. Very good for age. Wide margins. Light age toning and a few faint spots limited to blank margin areas only. Strong impression with bright original hand-coloring.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Alabama, Georgia
Reference: BG-13696-6

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 Creek people of the American Southeast, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Creeks", from De Mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol, the Dutch survey of the world's peoples written by Martinus Stuart and published in Amsterdam around 1805. The drawing is credited "J. Kuyper del." at the lower left, with the engraver's name at the right.

A man stands at the left in a white cloak and a blue breechcloth, with tattooing on his chest and a long ornamented shaft held in his hands, and a red fringed blanket hangs beside him. A woman sits on the ground at the right, sewing a length of fringed cloth, with a basket at her side. Behind them stand a thatched house with a wooden fence, a field of grain and tall palm trees. The coloring is in soft reds, yellows and greens.

The Creeks (Muscogee) lived in what are now Georgia and Alabama. The palms and the overall setting here reflect the artist's reliance on secondhand descriptions rather than direct observation of the region.

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