Campeche Mexico Engraving with Indigenous Figures by Allard Van der Aa, c1720
€ 490
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Sheet size
36 × 45.5 cm (14.2 × 17.9 in)
Condition
Excellent
Reference
BG-14190
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
Condition; crisp impression, clean paper, wide margins, no tears or repairs.
About this sheet
Campeche in New Spain, an original engraving published at Leiden by Pieter van der Aa after Carel Allard, around 1720. The small framed vignette sits in the center of a large sheet with wide blank margins, and a title banner appears across the sky.
Two local figures stand in the foreground on a bare shore. The man at the left wears a feathered cap and a short tunic with a cape of hide, and he carries a long paddle-shaped club and a staff. The man at the right is wrapped in a long cloak with a round shield or bundle at his side. Behind them a fortified town with towers, flags and ramparts stands on the water's edge, with a ship at anchor in front of it and hills rising at the right. The engraving is in line and hatching alone, without coloring.
Pieter van der Aa's collections of voyages and travel accounts often paired costume figures with a view of the place being described, and this plate follows that pattern for Campeche, a Spanish port on the Gulf coast of the Yucatan peninsula.
