7 coloured circa 1827 prints of early Canadian Indigenous people in suggested period clothing
Place Published: Milan, Italy
Date Published: [1827]
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: No binding
#1 Title: "La baie des amis dans le détroit de Noutka" People in boat off shore with land in background.
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.
Image size: 6-1/8 x 8-3/4 inches.
Condition: very good
Printed in outside border; #15 P. Fumagatti inc
Line and aquatint tone engraving with original hand colouring.
The Nuu-chaf-nulth (Nootka) People have occupied the Nootka Sound for over 4,000 years and their name means the People of all along the Mountains or for short the West Coast People. The largest tribe of the Nootka are the Tla-o-qui-aht (Calayoquot) who claim to be originally from Kennedy Lake, east of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, New Spain. They are noted for their ocean going canoes and may represent some of the people who migrated up and down the Pacific coast to populate the Americas
#2 Title: "Le roc de New-Eddystone" Natives in boats off shore with island and in background hand colored aquatint print
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.
Image size: 6-1/8 x 8-3/4 inches.
Condition: very good
Printed in outside border; #16 Paolo Fumagatti inc.
#3 Title: "Esterno delle abitazioni di Nutka" Natives in boats landing on shore with buildings in background
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.
Image size: 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches.
Condition: very good
Printed in outside border; #18 Paolo Fumagatti inc.
The Nuu-chaf-nulth (Nootka) People have occupied the Nootka Sound for over 4,000 years and their name means the People of all along the Mountains or for short the West Coast People. The largest tribe of the Nootka are the Tla-o-qui-aht (Calayoquot) who claim to be originally from Kennedy Lake, east of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, New Spain. They are noted for their ocean going canoes and may represent some of the people who migrated up and down the Pacific coast to populate the Americas
#4 "Eschimo del Nord-ovest della Baja d'Hudson" (Hudson Bay - Canada) Aboriginals standing onshore with houses in background"
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.
Image size: 6-5/8 x 8-3/4 inches.
Condition: some type offsetting in sky background, otherwise, very good
Printed in outside border; #23 Biasioli A.T.
Blind embossed seal of authenticity impressed at the time of publication.
#5 "Iterno di una abitazione di Nutka" People inside house or community building with fire in centre
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.
Image size: 7-3/4 x 11-7/8 inches.
Condition: very good
Printed in outside border; #19 G. Gallina inc
An interior scene of Noutka Indians.
The Nuu-chaf-nulth (Nootka) People have occupied the Nootka Sound for over 4,000 years and their name means the People of all along the Mountains or for short the West Coast People. The largest tribe of the Nootka are the Tla-o-qui-aht (Calayoquot) who claim to be originally from Kennedy Lake, east of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, New Spain. They are noted for their ocean going canoes and may represent some of the people who migrated up and down the Pacific coast to populate the Americas
#6 Title: "Abiti degli Eschimo" (Eskimo - Canada) People sitting onshore trying to start a fire with boat in background in a bay
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.
Image size: 6-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches.
Condition: some faint type offsetting in sky background, otherwise, very good
Printed in outside border; #22 D.K. Bontti PAID
Blind embossed seal of authenticity impressed at the time of publication
#7 Title: "Intérieur d'une maison d'Unalaschka" People in a community house with little girl climbing steps carved out of a pole
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches.
Image size: 7 x 10-3/8 inches.
Condition: some faint type offsetting in sky background, otherwise, very good
Printed in outside border; #9 G. Gallina
Giulio Ferrario was founder of the 'Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani' and served as the director of the Braidense National Library in Milan, Italy. Ferrario's work "Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire" was a 19th century multi volume / language world encyclopedia of culture, vividly illustrated almost all finely hand-colored. The work was one of the most decorative aquatint publications published in Italy. The text was written by Giulio Ferrario and the plates engraved by Raineri, Gallo Gallina, etc. The Costume ancient and modern was aimed at systematization "encyclopedic" knowledge of a set of disparate, where scholarship was made through of '' education 'and' 'entertainment' of the reader, interested in the exotic and different; sometimes the level of exposure and the documentation.
Item #8956
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