Native American Widows from Florida Scattering Hair on Husbands' Graves, 1758

Name: Native American Widows from Florida Scattering Hair on Husbands' Graves, 1758
Brand: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
SKU: BG-13806-83
Price: 155 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1758
Maker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 27 × 20 cm (10.6 × 7.9 in)
Condition: Fair. Condition is fair, with general age-related toning, slight offsetting, and overall browning. The image itself has no damage, leaving it perfect for matting or framing. The borders are 'rough' though. Please study the images carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Florida
Reference: BG-13806-83

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

Native widows of Florida scattering their hair over their husbands' graves, an original copper engraving lettered "Witwen aus Florida, die ihre Haare auf das Grab ihrer Männer streuen". The plate is numbered "N. 21" at the upper right and is credited "B. Picart inv." at the lower left, and it comes from the sixteenth volume of Johann Joachim Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und Lande, published in Leipzig in 1758.

Five women move across an open stretch of ground beside a stand of trees, each wearing a skirt of moss or fiber and holding out strands of hair, which they drop over the graves. In the foreground lie bows, arrows and a quiver, weapons of the dead men, and a clay vessel stands by a mound at the left. The sky above is full of cloud.

The plate is printed in black on laid paper, and its design goes back to earlier engravings of Florida customs rather than to eighteenth-century observation.

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