Life on the Edge: Unangan People of Unalaska, Late 18th Century

Name: Life on the Edge: Unangan People of Unalaska, Late 18th Century
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13599-2
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20 × 26 cm (7.9 × 10.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good. Light soiling, mostly around the borders, due to age and handling. One long crease or fold and few smaller ones. Ideally this image is to be colored. Study the image carefully.
Places: Alaska
Reference: BG-13599-2

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

Natives of Oonalashka and their habitations, an original engraving of the Aleutian island now spelled Unalaska, published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row. The plate title, "Natives of Oonalashka, and their Habitations.", is engraved in script beneath the image, with the engraver's credit at lower left and the publisher's imprint, including an "Oct'r 1" date line, below. The sheet is printed in black on cream paper.

The view looks across a grassy foreground to a steep, bare headland that runs out to the sea at the right. On a turf-covered mound at the left a small group of figures stands and sits together, while another figure in the lower center stands beside a rack hung with items left to dry. Skin boats lie along the shore at the right with figures beside them, and low turf-covered dwellings merge into the hillside.

Oonalashka is an older spelling of Unalaska, the island in the Aleutian chain where Captain James Cook's third voyage called in 1778, and views of its Unangan people and their houses were among the images that reached European readers from the North Pacific.

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