Original Antique Print of Peruvians, Natives of Peru

Name: Original Antique Print of Peruvians, Natives of Peru
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13332-3-1
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 37.5 × 27.5 cm (14.8 × 10.8 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Some wear and foxing in the margins, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-13332-3-1

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

Four heads of native inhabitants of Peru, an original antique lithograph by J. Honegger from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Naturgeschichte und Abbildung des Menschen, published in Zurich in 1845. The plate is numbered "No. 35.b" and titled "Eingeborne von Peru" in German, with "Habitans de Perou" beneath it in French. The lithographer's credit, "Lith. v. J. Honegger", appears at the lower right.

The sheet is printed in black and gray on cream paper, with four bust portraits arranged in two rows. At the upper left a woman with a long braid turns her face to the side, and at the upper right a man with cropped hair faces the viewer, wearing a cross on a cord around his neck. Below, a long-haired figure is drawn in profile, and a fourth man wears a collared shirt and a cross on a chain. The figures are drawn in the manner of ethnographic portrait studies, in the plain dress of the period.

Schinz's work formed part of a series of nineteenth-century Swiss publications that set out to describe and illustrate the peoples of the world, and its plates give a sense of how the Andes and their inhabitants were pictured by European naturalists of the day.

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