Original Antique Print of a North American Chippewa Mother with Child, 1836

Name: Original Antique Print of a North American Chippewa Mother with Child, 1836
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-10436
Price: 215 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1836
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 19 × 16 cm (7.5 × 6.3 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-10436

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

Eine Frau v. Chippaway im Winter, a Chippewa mother carrying a child, an original lithograph of 1836 from the Neue Bildergalerie für die Jugend. The sheet is lettered "960 Eine Frau v. Chippaway im Winter" below the image, and is printed in black and gray.

A woman in a long, loose gown walks in profile toward the left with a strap running over her forehead, carrying her child in a cradleboard on her back. Her hair is dressed in curls, her feet are bare, and the child's small face peers out from the bundle. A low bush and a few palm trees and rocks in the distance form the backdrop, a typical sign of how European illustrators of the period supplied imagined scenery for far away peoples.

The Chippewa, or Ojibwe, are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland lies around the Great Lakes in what is now southern Canada and the northern United States. Their Ojibwe name for themselves is Anishinaabe, and they are among the largest Native peoples north of Mexico. The print is a modest children's educational lithograph, and shows how North American peoples were presented to German-speaking young readers.

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