Indigenous People of Peru, Hand-Colored Ethnographic Portrait, Original 1828

Name: Indigenous People of Peru, Hand-Colored Ethnographic Portrait, Original 1828
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14303-43
Price: 890 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1828
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 32.5 × 50.5 cm (12.8 × 19.9 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition consistent with age. Light overall age toning and scattered foxing, mainly in the margins. Minor handling wear at the sheet edges. Original hand-coloring remains attractive. Wide margins preserved. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14303-43

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

Indigenous people of Peru, an original hand-colored engraving published in 1828 from the atlas of Louis Isidore Duperrey's voyage around the world in the corvette La Coquille. The plate is lettered "Indigènes du Pérou" and carries the note "Voyage de la Coquille" at the upper right, with the artist's and engraver's credits and the printer's imprint in the lower margin.

Two bust-length portraits stand alone on the wide sheet. The man at the left wears a blue garment with puffed shoulders and a cross hung on a cord at his chest, and the woman at the right has dark hair in a long braid and a dark dress. The faces are carefully observed, and the coloring is applied by hand in a restrained palette.

Duperrey's expedition left France in 1822 and returned in 1825, and the atlas of plates that came from it recorded the peoples and places visited in South America and the Pacific.

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