Suriname Jungle Life & Sacred Stone - Lithograph Pair by Karl Martin, 1888
€ 290
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1888
Sheet size
28 × 19 cm (11.0 × 7.5 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14171-8 & BG-14171-9
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
Both original lithographs are in very good antique condition. Even overall age toning consistent with late 19th-century paper. Minor scattered foxing, mainly confined to the outer margins. Images remain clean and well preserved with strong clarity.
About this sheet
Life on the rivers of Suriname, a pair of original lithographs from Karl Martin's Bericht uber eine Reise nach Niederlandisch West-Indien, published at Leiden by E. J. Brill in 1888. The plates are lettered "Tab. II" and "Tab. III" at the upper right, with two numbered views on each, and they are printed in gray with a warm buff tint.
On Tab. II the upper view shows a house in Langahuka, with a steeply pitched thatched roof set among trees, a canoe drawn up before it and a barrel at the right. The lower view shows a covered canoe moored against a forested bank, with a long paddle and a pole standing in the water. On Tab. III the upper view shows a traveler in a pith helmet resting on a buttress root of an enormous tree, with palms and vines hanging around him. The lower view shows a huge rounded granite boulder in the forest with a small figure standing at its base for scale, which the old description gives as the "Holy Stone of Worsteling Jakobs".
Martin was a professor of geology at Leiden, and the plates give a record of the settlement, river transport and forest of the interior as his expedition found them.
