Mexican Indigenous People – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805

Name: Mexican Indigenous People – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13696-5
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1805
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 22.5 × 13 cm (8.9 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. Very good for age. Wide margins. Slight age toning and a few minor spots confined to blank margins only. Strong impression with bright original hand-coloring.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-13696-5

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

The Indians of Mexico, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Mexicanen", from De Mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol, the Dutch survey of the world's peoples written by Martinus Stuart and published in Amsterdam around 1805. The drawing is credited "J. Kuyper del." at the lower left, with the engraver's name at the right.

A man and woman sit and talk in the open. The woman wears a patterned dress, a head cloth, earrings and a beaded necklace. The man, in a check-patterned sleeveless shirt and a loose apron, gestures as he speaks and holds an axe. A basket and a shallow dish sit beside them, with a flat stone and other implements in the foreground. Behind them, fields of ripe grain run back to palm trees and green hills under a pale sky. The coloring is laid in warm yellows, greens and pinks.

The plate is a European imagining of New Spain's rural population as it was pictured early in the nineteenth century, assembled from travelers' accounts rather than drawn from life.

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