Rare Antique Engraving – Santo Domingo and Buenos Aires Streets, 1867

Name: Rare Antique Engraving – Santo Domingo and Buenos Aires Streets, 1867
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14126-18
Price: 225 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1867
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26.3 × 17 cm (10.4 × 6.7 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Argentina
Reference: BG-14126-18

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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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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

A procession before the church of Santo Domingo in Buenos Aires, an original steel engraving printed in Paris in the 1860s. The plate is lettered "Santo Domingo à Buenos-Ayres", drawn by Lebreton and engraved by Ferdinand Delannoy, with the printer's line of Chardon.

The church stands at the end of a street, its plain façade topped by a tall bell tower and a dome, with a balconied house in the left foreground. In the street, a group of men and musicians, one playing a cello, carry a statue of a standing figure with a radiating halo on a platform, and a crowd follows. Heavy clouds fill the sky.

The Dominican convent and church of Santo Domingo were among the city's colonial landmarks. The plate belongs to a series of South American views published around 1867, made for a European readership.

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