Antique Print of a Man of Tierra del Fuego by Cook, '1803'
€ 200
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1803
Mapmaker / artist
J. Cook (Artist)
Sheet size
41.5 × 27.5 cm (16.3 × 10.8 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-11487-103
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
General age-related toning. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
A man of Christmas Sound in Tierra del Fuego, a copper engraving from the Dutch edition of Captain Cook's voyages, "Reizen rondom de Waereld," translated by J. D. Pasteur and published by Honkoop, Allart and Van Cleef, 1803. The plate is lettered in Dutch "Man van Kersmis Kanaal op het Vuurland" below the image and carries a plate number at the upper right.
The portrait shows a man head and shoulders in a vertical frame, with thick, tangled hair falling about his face and a dark cloak draped over his shoulders, leaving the chest bare, where a few lines mark the skin. The background is lightly shaded. The image is a small engraved vignette set low within a broad, clean plate margin, a format common to the plates of the Dutch Cook edition.
Kersmis Kanaal is the Dutch form of Christmas Sound, on the southwest coast of Tierra del Fuego. Cook's ships called there during the second voyage, and the people encountered at the far tip of South America were among the groups engraved for the voyage accounts, which were translated and reissued across Europe.
