Portraits of Mico Chlucco, Miranda, and Juri by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, 1836

1836 · Views & Engravings

Portraits of Mico Chlucco, Miranda, and Juri by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, 1836

Name: Portraits of Mico Chlucco, Miranda, and Juri by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, 1836
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13176-9
Price: 490 USD
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Date: 1836
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 32.5 × 26 cm (12.8 × 10.2 in)
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-13176-9

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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.

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About this piece

Three portraits from the native peoples of the Americas on one sheet, an original lithograph credited to Karl Joseph Brodtmann, 1836. The plate is numbered "Pl. 9" at the upper right, and each sitter is named beneath the portrait: "Mico Chlucco" at the top, with "Miranha" and "Juri" below, left and right. It is printed in black and gray tones on cream paper.

Mico Chlucco is drawn in profile, looking to the right. He wears a close-fitting banded cap crowned with a spray of curling plumes, a collar at the throat, and a feathered garment over one shoulder with an arrow tucked behind it. The title "Mico" is a Muskogean word for a chief, and the portrait is the grander of the three. Below, the Miranha and the Juri appear as simple bare-shouldered busts of young men, shown full face. The Miranha has dark hair cut straight across the forehead, and the Juri has short hair and dark painted patches on the cheeks and chin.

The plate pairs a North American leader with two peoples of the Amazon basin, which shows how such ethnographic series grouped portraits by type of dress and ornament rather than by region.

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