Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires in Argentina, 1820s - Jules Ferrario

Name: Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires in Argentina, 1820s - Jules Ferrario
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13806-3
Price: 215 USD
Availability: InStock

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Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26 × 36.5 cm (10.2 × 14.4 in)
Condition: Fair. Given age. Light soiling. Remains of paper strip from binding at top margin. Blind stamp as issued at right bottom. General age-related toning and an old damp spot in the bottom margin- not in the image. Please study scans carefully.
Places: Argentina
Reference: BG-13806-3

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

The Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, a hand-colored aquatint with etched outlines from Giulio Ferrario's Il Costume Antico e Moderno (Le Costume Ancien et Moderne), Volume II, plate 2. The first issue was published in Milan in 17 volumes between about 1815 and 1826, and the Italian volume carries the date 1821. The sheet is a landscape format, with the engraver's signature at the lower left.

The view is framed by the dark inside of a vaulted arch, through which the plaza opens in a pale, hazy light. In the middle of the square stands a white pyramid, the monument in the Plaza de Mayo, with an arcaded building with a bell tower beside it at the left and a long, low house behind. At the right a domed church rises above a plain wall. In the shadow of the arch in the foreground a man leads three mules, two of them loaded with bundles and baskets, and a woman in red and a vendor with goods appear beyond.

The scene shows the main square of the city in the years just after independence.

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