Scenes from 17th Century Chile: A Glimpse of Early Indigenous Cultures, 1673

Name: Scenes from 17th Century Chile: A Glimpse of Early Indigenous Cultures, 1673
Brand: Montanus & Ogilby
SKU: BG-13596-32
Price: 505 USD
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Date: 1673
Maker: Montanus & Ogilby
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 31 × 19 cm (12.2 × 7.5 in)
Condition: Good. Expected age-related tonality changes and potential marginal foxing. The paper shows signs of handling, such as soft creases and wear along left edge. Please study the image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-13596-32

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

A group of figures labeled as Chile ("Chili") in an original copper engraving from the German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's Die Unbekante Neue Welt oder Beschreibung des Welt-teils Amerika und des Sud-Landes, published in Amsterdam by Jacob Meurs in 1673.

In the center, a man in a long striped tunic stands with a club on his shoulder and one hand held out, and a woman at the left, in a similar striped garment and with her hair arranged in ringlets, faces him with her hand open. Between them, a crouching woman with a child on her back holds a stick, and two further figures at the right wear cloaks and carry a basket and a jug. Small tent-like huts and a palm tree stand in the background, and a rocky hill rises behind with a tiny figure walking on its slope.

Montanus compiled his account of the Americas from earlier travel writers, and the plates in this edition show how seventeenth-century Europeans pictured the peoples of the New World.

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