Guiana Indigenous People – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805

Name: Guiana Indigenous People – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13696-4
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1805
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 22.5 × 13 cm (8.9 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. Very good for age. Clean sheet with wide margins. Mild margin toning and a few faint age spots in blank areas only. Crisp impression with bright original hand-coloring.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: The Guianas
Reference: BG-13696-4

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 Indians of Guiana, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Guianers", from De Mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol, the Dutch survey of the world's peoples 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.

Under a thatched roof a man reclines in a hammock, wearing a feathered headband and holding a fan. A woman stands at the left with a bow and arrow in one hand, a string of beads at her neck and bands at her ankles, and with her other hand she lifts a green parrot toward the roof beam. In the foreground are baskets, a dark pot, shells and a carved seat on which a small musical instrument rests, and a palm tree rises in the sunlit background. The coloring is laid in tan, green and soft blue over fine line and stipple.

Guiana, on the northern coast of South America, was divided among Dutch, British and French colonies, and the Dutch colony there made it a familiar subject to the readers of this series.

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