Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1854
Sheet size
27.2 × 18 cm (10.7 × 7.1 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14120-18
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 report: Light foxing and mild toning in the margins. Image clean with vivid, well-preserved colors. Plate mark visible. Wide margins intact.
About this sheet
A man in a wide hat and cape holding a lute, a hand-colored lithograph from the Album des Voyages Anciens et Modernes, published in 1854 by Martial Ardant Frères. The plate is lettered "Cincinnati" in script beneath the image, within a double-ruled border on wide cream margins.
The standing figure wears a gray wide-brimmed hat, a light blue jacket over a yellow waistcoat with a bow tie, white trousers, black shoes and a blue sash at the waist, with a brown cape hanging from his shoulders. He raises one hand and holds a lute or mandolin in the other. Behind him a small house and trees stand in a landscape of open grass, and a distant figure in a cloak walks along the path.
The caption names the American city, but the costume, the sash and the instrument read as a Spanish or Latin type rather than an Ohio one, so the plate is best understood as a costume figure in a French series of travel views rather than a portrait of the city's inhabitants. The color is carefully applied by hand over the lithograph.
