Habits et Maisons des Floridiens, Early Florida Ethnography – Engraving, c.1857

Name: Habits et Maisons des Floridiens, Early Florida Ethnography – Engraving, c.1857
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14129-12
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1857
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 25.2 × 18 cm (9.9 × 7.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light overall age toning with scattered foxing and minor surface marks, mainly in the margins. The engraved image remains clear and well-defined. A visible plate mark is present. Minor edge wear consistent with age.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Florida
Reference: BG-14129-12

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

Houses and dress of the people of Florida in an engraved plate with the French heading "Habits et Maisons des Floridiens," set in a ruled border and numbered "Tom. XIV" and "N° V" in the lower margin.

A man and a woman stand in the foreground, the man draped in a cloth with one arm raised and a child at his side. A tall palm leans over them at the left. Behind the couple stand houses with tiled roofs and open porches, with figures seated in the shade, and further buildings rise at the right where smoke drifts across the sky. The border is a double line with a tooled pattern inside it.

The volume and plate numbers show that the sheet belongs to a multi-volume French work of geography or travel, in which illustrations of customs and dwellings accompanied the text. The architecture and costume are those of a European artist's idea of the region, drawn without close knowledge of Florida.

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