Saturiova: The Warrior King of Florida Performing a Ritual Sacrifice, c.1790

Name: Saturiova: The Warrior King of Florida Performing a Ritual Sacrifice, c.1790
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13806-76
Price: 405 USD
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Date: 1790
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 38 × 26.5 cm (15 × 10.4 in)
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Florida
Reference: BG-13806-76

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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.

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

Saturiova, a Timucua leader of Florida, in an original engraving by Teodoro Viero of Venice, dated about 1790. The plate has parallel captions in Italian and French: "Saturiova, Re della Florida nell'America Settentrionale in atto di far Sacrifizio alli Dei prima di andare alla guerra" and "Saturiove, Roi de la Floride dans l'Amérique Septentrionale au moment de sacrifier aux Dieux avant que d'aller à la guerre", with the line "Apud Theodorum Viero Ven." at the lower right.

The figure stands in profile, looking over his shoulder, with his body covered in tattooed patterns and a tuft of feathers and a topknot on his head. In his right hand he holds up a shallow bowl, and in the left a long spear. An animal pelt hangs at his waist, a fire burns at the right, and bare hills close the horizon. The sheet is printed in black.

Viero was a Venetian engraver and publisher, and his plates of the peoples of the Americas relied on printed sources, since neither he nor his readers had seen the lands depicted.

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