Inhabitants of Unalaska, Alaska – Antique Hand-Colored Ethnographic Print c.1805
€ 210
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1805
Sheet size
22.5 × 13 cm (8.9 × 5.1 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-13696-13
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 for age. Wide margins retained. Light age toning and a few small spots in margin areas only. Strong impression and well-preserved original hand-coloring.
About this sheet
The inhabitants of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, an original hand-colored engraving titled "Inwooners van Oonolaska", from De Mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol, the Dutch survey of the world's peoples written by Martinus Stuart and published in Amsterdam around 1805. The drawing is credited "J. Kuyper del." at the lower left, with the engraver's name at the right.
Two figures stand close together. The man at the right wears a long yellow-brown waterproof garment with fringe at the shoulders and a visored wooden hat decorated with a crest of long bristles. He holds a long paddle, with a coil of cord at his waist, and stands on the deck of a skin boat with tools and a float lying around him. The woman at the left, in a fur-trimmed coat decorated with beads and fringes and with ornaments at the face, holds what looks like a carved mask or skull. Snowy mountains and clouds fill the background. The coloring is in olive, gray, blue and brown washes.
Unalaska is in the eastern Aleutians, where Russian traders and the voyages of the late eighteenth century produced the first detailed European images of the Unangan people.
