Inhabitants of Quito, South America, from Middleton's Geography, 1777

Name: Inhabitants of Quito, South America, from Middleton's Geography, 1777
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13806-75
Price: 125 USD
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Date: 1777
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 35.5 × 22 cm (14 × 8.7 in)
Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition for its age. Slight toning and minor edge wear consistent with age. Plate impression remains strong. Wide margins. Some light folds but no tears or repairs.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Ecuador, Bolivia & Paraguay, South America
Reference: BG-13806-75

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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.

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About this piece

Inhabitants of Quito, an engraving from Charles Theodore Middleton's A Complete System of Geography, published in London in 1777. The title is engraved on a ribbon at the foot ("Inhabitants of Quito"), with a numbered key below, and a wreath at the top reads "Engraved for Middleton's Complete System of Geography".

The key lists six figures: 1. A Spaniard of Quito, 2. An Indian of Distinction, 3. Indian Barber, 4. Mechanic of Quito, 5. Indian Peasant, 6. A Common Indian. They stand together on a rise at the foot of a rocky hillside under a spreading tree, with a house showing in the middle distance, and a seated woman with a child at the right. The group is framed in a neoclassical border of urns, swags, festoons and laurel branches.

Quito, then in the Spanish colonial Audiencia of Quito, is today the capital of Ecuador, and plates of this kind gave English readers a picture of the social ranks of Spanish America.

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