Iroquois Warrior: 1783 Engraving by Teodoro Viero of a Native of Northern Canada

1783 · Native Peoples

Iroquois Warrior: 1783 Engraving by Teodoro Viero of a Native of Northern Canada

Name: Iroquois Warrior: 1783 Engraving by Teodoro Viero of a Native of Northern Canada
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13806-77
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1783
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 38 × 26 cm (15 × 10.2 in)
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-13806-77

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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.

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

An Iroquois man of Canada, an original hand-colored engraving by Teodoro Viero of Venice, dated 1783. The plate has parallel Italian and French captions: "Vomo Irochese abitante del Canadà nell'America Settentrionale" and "Homme Iroquois habitant du Canada dans l'Amérique Septentrionale", with the publisher's line "Apud Theodorum Viero Ven." at the lower right.

The man is shown full length, walking toward the left in profile with his right arm held out and pointing. A long gun rests in the crook of his other arm, its butt on the ground. His body and legs are covered with tattooed patterns, and he wears a fringed, embroidered apron and a headdress of green plant material with two upright stems. Behind him a low sandy plain meets a ridge of brown hills at the right, and a few plants grow in the lower left corner.

Viero, a Venetian publisher and engraver, issued sets of costume plates of this kind for readers who knew the peoples of America mostly from second-hand accounts.

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