Residents of Quito, Ecuador – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805

Name: Residents of Quito, Ecuador – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13696-3
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1805
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 22.5 × 13 cm (8.9 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. Very good for age. Clean sheet with wide margins. Minor age toning and a few small faint spots in the blank margins only. Strong impression and original hand-coloring.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Ecuador, Bolivia & Paraguay
Reference: BG-13696-3

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 inhabitants of Quito, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Inwoners van Quito", from De Mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol, the Dutch survey of the world's peoples written by Martinus Stuart and published in Amsterdam around 1805. The drawing is credited "J. Kuyper del." at the lower left, with the engraver's name at the right.

Two barefoot women walk toward the viewer along a stony path. The woman at the left wears a gray tunic knotted at the shoulder and carries a bundle slung over her back, while the second, wearing a headband, carries a woven basket and a small child riding on her back. Behind them, ripe fields of grain climb the hillside, and a village of tiled roofs with a palm and a church tower sits in the valley under green mountains and a pale sky. The coloring is soft and kept to grays, greens and straw yellows.

Quito, high in the Andes, was then a Spanish colonial city in the Audiencia of Quito, and the series built its views of such places from the travel literature available to Dutch readers.

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