Mexican Indians Bringing Flowers and Fruits to Market, Lake Chalco, 1866
€ 170
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1866
Sheet size
28.4 × 40.2 cm (11.2 × 15.8 in)
Reference
BG-13812-24
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.
Condition
Good, given age. Due to the printing the text on the rear of the print shows on the front. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
About this sheet
Mexican Indians Bringing Flowers and Fruits to Market by the Canal from Lake Chalco, a hand-colored wood engraving from Harper's Weekly for 10 November 1866. The caption is printed in small capitals beneath the image, and the page number 709 and the name of the paper run up the left margin.
A crowd of flat boats poled along a canal fills the picture. In the foreground a man in a blue shirt and wide straw hat stands at the stern of a long boat, poling it forward, while a woman in a white shawl sits among piled melons, grapes and other fruit, and a man in a yellow hat bends over his goods beside her. Behind them more boats are heaped with produce and flowers and crowded with people in broad hats, and tall cypresses line the right bank under a pale sky with a few birds. A bundle of stakes stands in the water at the right edge.
Lake Chalco lay south of Mexico City, and its canals carried the produce of the floating gardens to the capital's markets. The print appeared during the last year of the French intervention in Mexico, when the illustrated papers of New York gave close coverage to the country.
