Daily Life in Brazil in the early 17th Century on a Copper Engraving by Montanus

Name: Daily Life in Brazil in the early 17th Century on a Copper Engraving by Montanus
Brand: Montanus & Ogilby
SKU: BG-13596-29
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. Expected age-related tonality changes and potential marginal foxing. The paper shows signs of handling, such as soft creases and wear along left edge. Tiny corner in top left cut off. Please study the image carefully.
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-13596-29

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.

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About this piece

Two standing figures and a third seated behind them in a scene from Brazil, 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 "Brasil" and numbered 409 at the upper right.

A man on the left walks toward the viewer with a large basket strapped to his back and a smaller basket of roots held before him. A second man stands at the right with one hand on his hip and the other held open in conversation, wearing a feather headdress. Behind them a third figure with a headdress and a quiver of arrows is seen over a low wall, and beyond a palisade a hammock hangs between palms. A shrub with large fruit grows at the right, and a mountain rises in the background.

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

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