San Juan River, Central America – Antique Tropical Landscape Engraving, ca.1850

Name: San Juan River, Central America – Antique Tropical Landscape Engraving, ca.1850
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-116
Price: 215 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 14.4 × 23.8 cm (5.7 × 9.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition with age-related toning and scattered light foxing, mainly visible in the margins. Minor handling marks consistent with age. The engraved image remains well preserved and displays attractively. Please review the photographs.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Central America
Reference: BG-14038-116

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

Scenery on the San Juan River in Central America, an original steel engraving published around 1850 by the Bibliographisches Institut of Hildburghausen, whose imprint is in the lower margin. The sheet is printed in black. The plate title reads "Szenerie auf dem San Juan in Central-America".

The view looks across the broad, calm river toward a high bank thick with vegetation. A huge tree in the left foreground is draped with hanging vines, and palms rise above the wooded bluff behind it, with tall feathery trees at the top. A small boat with a figure in it crosses the open water, and the far shore lies low and flat under a cloudy sky, with distant rain or smoke on the horizon. Reeds and marsh grasses edge the near bank.

The San Juan flows from Lake Nicaragua to the Caribbean and forms part of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In the middle of the nineteenth century its route across Nicaragua was much discussed as a way between the oceans.

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