Spanish American Girl from Concepción, Chile - Antique Lithograph, c.1852
€ 220
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1852
Sheet size
26.3 × 17 cm (10.4 × 6.7 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14289-53
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
Age-related toning and occasional light spotting to the paper, with minor edge wear consistent with age. Overall in good condition with attractive original hand-coloring and generous margins.
About this sheet
Spanish American girl from Concepción, Chile, an original hand-colored lithograph of about 1852 from a nineteenth-century costume series in Dutch. The plate is lettered "Spaansch Amerikaansch Meisje van het Eiland Conception (Chili)" (a Spanish American girl from the island of Conception, Chile) beneath the figure.
The young woman stands full length on a small patch of ground, her dark hair drawn back in ringlets, with a red bead necklace at her throat. A plaid shawl in pink and purple is wrapped around her shoulders, and in one hand she holds a folded yellow fan. Her wide white skirt is scattered with small yellow floral motifs and finished with a band at the hem, and she wears striped stockings and small red shoes. The coloring is applied by hand over the lithographed outline, with the shawl as the strongest note.
The Dutch caption places her on the "island" of Conception; the town of Concepción lies on the Chilean mainland coast. Plates of this kind showed European readers the dress of the peoples of Spanish America, and the wide margins leave the single figure alone on the sheet.
