Rare Antique Engraving – Havana, Cuba, Harbor and City Landscape, 1867

Name: Rare Antique Engraving – Havana, Cuba, Harbor and City Landscape, 1867
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14126-20
Price: 345 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1867
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 17 × 26.3 cm (6.7 × 10.4 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Cuba
Reference: BG-14126-20

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 harbor of Havana, Cuba, an original steel engraving printed in Paris in the 1860s. The plate is lettered "La Havane", drawn by Lebreton and engraved by Ed. Willmann, with the printer's line of Chardon.

Rough water fills the foreground, where a rowing boat carries several men through the swell. A large three-masted ship lies at the left and other ships ride at anchor along the shore, with steamers and small craft near the waterfront. The town lies along the water at the foot of steep hills, with a fort or lighthouse at the left and a signal station on the highest hill.

Havana was the leading Caribbean port of the Spanish empire and a center of trade for the region. The plate belongs to a series of Latin American views published around 1867 for the European market.

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