Cultural Encounter in New Mexico, Copper Engraving Published in 1673

Name: Cultural Encounter in New Mexico, Copper Engraving Published in 1673
Brand: Montanus & Ogilby
SKU: BG-13596-23
Price: 505 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1673
Maker: Montanus & Ogilby
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 31 × 19 cm (12.2 × 7.5 in)
Condition: Good. Slightly stained on the outer margins, otherwise in good condition. German text, also on reverse. Please study the image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: New Mexico
Reference: BG-13596-23

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

An enthroned figure from "Neu Mexiko", an original copper engraving from the German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's Die Unbekante Neue Welt oder Beschreibung des Welt-teils Amerika und des Sud-Landes, published in Amsterdam by Jacob Meurs in 1673. The plate is headed "Neu Meriko" and numbered 248 at the upper right.

A man sits on a raised block in the center, wearing a feathered headdress and necklaces and a long patterned cloth over his knees. In his right hand he holds a feather fan, and in his left a round shield decorated with crossed arrows. Behind him, skulls and bones are hung against a curtained backdrop, and kneeling attendants look on at both sides, with a hillside landscape in the openings at the left and right.

Montanus compiled his account of the Americas from earlier travel writers, and the plates in this edition show how seventeenth-century Europeans pictured the peoples of the New World.

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