Florida Women Mourning Their Husbands, with Hermaphrodites in Ritual Service

Name: Florida Women Mourning Their Husbands, with Hermaphrodites in Ritual Service
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13806-71
Price: 315 USD
Availability: InStock

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Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 42 × 26 cm (16.5 × 10.2 in)
Condition: Good. Impression on laid paper with generous margins. Slight age toning to edges and a minor chip on the lower right margin, not affecting the image. Paper remains clean and strong, with finely preserved plate detail.
Places: Florida
Reference: BG-13806-71

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

Florida women in mourning and widows sowing their hair, a copperplate engraving from Les Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, engraved by Bernard Picart, from the 1723 edition according to the earlier listing (no year is given in the record). Two scenes appear on one sheet.

The upper scene is lettered in French: women who have lost their husbands in war come to beg the king's help, and the hermaphrodites are described as attending the sick and burying the dead. A tall man with a feathered headdress stands at the left with a staff before a row of crouching women with long loose hair, while two figures carry a body on a litter in the background. The lower scene, "Veuves de la Floride, qui sèment leurs cheveux sur les Tombeaux de leurs Maris", shows women scattering locks of hair over graves among trees, with bows and snakes on the ground.

The scenes rest on the sixteenth-century French accounts of the Florida peoples.

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