Original Antique Costume Print of Peru – Arrieros & Aymara Dance, c.1840

Name: Original Antique Costume Print of Peru – Arrieros & Aymara Dance, c.1840
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14303-11
Price: 210 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1840
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 15.8 × 24.5 cm (6.2 × 9.6 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition considering its age. Original hand coloring. General age-related toning, occasional foxing and minor handling wear. Please study the image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14303-11

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

Muleteers and Aymara dancers in "Perou", an original hand-colored engraving from the French travel series Voyage autour du Monde et Naufrages célèbres, published in France around 1840. The lettering beneath the image gives the title "Perou." with the captions "Arrieros" and "Danse d'Indiens Aymaras", and the series title appears at the lower right.

The two scenes share one landscape. At the left stand two arrieros, the muleteers who carried goods across the Andes: one in a conical hat and gray cloak with his arms folded, the other in a black hat, red vest, green breeches and pink sash, holding a switch. At the right the Aymara dancers play pipes and drums. Three wear tall, balloon-shaped headdresses striped in blue, red and yellow and topped with feather plumes, and a woman in a broad hat, blue skirt and embroidered bodice raises a long spear hung with a cloth. Wild plants and rocks fill the foreground, and pale hills lie in the distance.

The series gathered costume and travel scenes from many countries in one illustrated publication, and this plate is an early French view of festival dress in the Andes.

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