Florida Indians, Couple in Traditional Dress – Mallet America Engraving, 1683

Name: Florida Indians, Couple in Traditional Dress – Mallet America Engraving, 1683
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14129-3
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1683
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 18.7 × 12.8 cm (7.4 × 5 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for a 17th-century hand-colored engraving. General age toning to the paper, with scattered light foxing and minor surface marks. Margins show some wear and soft handling, including small edge nicks. Original hand coloring.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Florida
Reference: BG-14129-3

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 and woman of Florida in an original copper engraving with early hand color, from Alain Manesson Mallet's Description de l'Univers, published in Paris in 1683. The sheet is headed "De l'Amérique, Figure CXXX," with the page number 299, and the banner over the figures reads "Ples de la Floride."

The two figures stand in a lightly drawn landscape of hills and water. The man at the right carries a long bow and a quiver of arrows on his back, with a red cloth tied at the waist, and the woman at the left wears a blue skirt and bracelets and anklets of beads, and points as if in conversation. The coloring is bold, in strong red, blue and yellow, over a ribbon banner tinted lilac.

Mallet was a military engineer in the service of Louis XIV, and his work combined cartography, fortification and ethnography in several volumes. Its American costume plates draw on earlier travel accounts, and they were among the most widely circulated images of Native peoples of the Southeast in late 17th-century Europe.

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