Mexican Street Scene – Ranchero, Cavalier, and Poblana Women, c.1845

Name: Mexican Street Scene – Ranchero, Cavalier, and Poblana Women, c.1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13682-20
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23 × 30 cm (9.1 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Excellent impression with rich original coloring. Minor foxing in the margins, image area fresh and clean. Wide borders intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-13682-20

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

Types of Mexican society, an original hand-colored lithograph titled "Amerique du Nord, Mexique", from Le Monde en Estampes: Types et Costumes des Principaux Peuples de l'Univers, published in Paris around 1845-1850 by Amedee Bedelet. It is lettered "Fossey del." and "Bocquin lith.", with the imprint "Imp. Lemercier Paris".

Five groups are identified in the captions beneath the image: "Poblanas (Paysannes)", "Ranchero (Fermier)", "Cavalier Mexicain", "Dame Mexicaine" and "Femme et enfant de terra Caliente". At the left, two women in embroidered blouses and ribboned skirts stand talking, one with a white head cloth. In the center a ranchero in a wide straw hat, striped poncho and red sash faces them, while behind him a mounted horseman in a green cloak with a gold-bordered collar rides beside a lady with a feathered hat on a second horse. At the right, a barefoot woman in white drapery balances a clay vessel on her head, with a small child in yellow shorts at her side. Whitewashed walls and a vine-covered porch form the background, and the palette is mainly ochre, green and earth red.

The plate reflects the French interest in regional costume and social types in Mexico in the years after independence.

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