Fuegians of Tierra del Fuego – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805

Name: Fuegians of Tierra del Fuego – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13696-1
Price: 245 USD
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Date: 1805
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 22.5 × 13 cm (8.9 × 5.1 in)
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Argentina, Chile
Reference: BG-13696-1

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 Fuegians of Tierra del Fuego, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Vuurlanders" (Fire-landers), from De Mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol, a Dutch survey of the peoples of the world 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.

Two figures sit in a dense, damp forest of the far south of South America. The man at the left, wearing a band of leaves or fur around his head and a loose cloak, sits with his arms folded across his knees and a small blade in his hand. At the right, a second figure with a crest of white feathers tips a large shell to his mouth to drink. A fire burns at the foot of the picture, and a basket, a long spear and a scatter of mussel shells lie in the foreground. The coloring is applied in green, ochre and soft blue washes over the stipple and line engraving.

The series assembled its images from the published accounts of voyagers, and the Fuegians were among the peoples that European readers knew mainly from the reports of expeditions around Cape Horn.

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