Haiti Light Infantry, Types Militaires – Antique Caricature Lithograph, ca.1862

Name: Haiti Light Infantry, Types Militaires – Antique Caricature Lithograph, ca.1862
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14177-31
Price: 225 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1862
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 32.8 × 22.6 cm (12.9 × 8.9 in)
Condition: Fair. Fair to good. Original hand coloring. Noticeable age toning and scattered foxing throughout the sheet, particularly in the margins. The image remains clear and visually strong.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Hispaniola (Haiti & Dominican Republic)
Reference: BG-14177-31

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 soldier of the Haitian light infantry, a hand-colored lithograph from the French satirical series Types Militaires, c.1862. The caption reads "Haiti, Infanterie Légère, 6e Tenue," and the lower left credit reads "Dess. et lith. par Draner," with the printer's imprint "Imp. Lemercier" at the lower margin. Draner was the pseudonym of Jules Renard, and the old description names Daziaro as the publisher.

The figure is drawn full length in the foreground, in an exaggerated caricature style. He wears a shako with a tall red plume, a green band and a chin strap, a white cross-belt, white gloves, yellow-striped trousers, and boots, and carries a sword at his side and a closed red parasol in one hand. In the background a hut stands among palms, with two other soldiers in different dress at the left and right edges. Color is applied over the lithographic tone in flat washes.

Types Militaires was a French series of satirical prints of the armies of many nations, aimed at a European public. Like others in the set it works through exaggeration, and it belongs to the period's French view of foreign troops.

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