Indigenous Dress and Interiors, South America - Ferrario-Bonatti 1821

€ 190

Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)

Date: 1821
Sheet size: 36.5 × 26 cm (14.4 × 10.2 in)
Condition: Fair
Reference: BG-13806-2

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

Given age. Light soiling. Remains of paper strip from binding at left margin. Blind stamp as issued at right bottom. General age-related toning and an old damp spot in the left margin - not in the image. Please study scans carefully.

About this sheet

Indigenous dress and interior in South America, a hand-colored aquatint with etched outlines by D. K. Bonatti, from Giulio Ferrario's Il Costume Antico e Moderno, published in Milan, dated 1821. The plate is signed "D. K. Bonatti inc." at the lower right.

Two men stand and sit on a stepped brick floor at the corner of a covered room. Both wear striped wraps around the waist, and the seated man, with a band around his head, holds his hand out in conversation while the standing one, with a cord in his fingers, listens. Behind them hangs a row of leather straps and stirrup-like loops on the wall, and at the right a spotted hide and a bunch of dark feathers lean against the post. A woman in a hood looks on from behind a half wall at the left.

Ferrario's survey of the costumes of the world ran to 17 volumes in its first issue, from about 1815 to 1826, and the American volumes took their material from travelers and naturalists.