PANAMA-NATIVES-INDIANS-BLOODLETTING [Jan LAMSVELT after DAMPIER, 1771]

PANAMA-NATIVES-INDIANS-BLOODLETTING [Jan LAMSVELT after DAMPIER, 1771]

Print

€150.00

Plaat XXIV. Wafer. – This original antique print shows native Indians from Panama performing the medical procedure of bloodletting; ‘The Patient is seated on a Stone in the River and the Doctors with a small bow shoot their arrows into the naked body of the Patient from head to foot shooting their arrows as fast as they can not miss any part’.

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Description

Plaat XXIV. Wafer.

Copperplate engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 15,4 x 20,2 cm. Image size: 13 x 16,8 cm.

From William Sewel’s Dutch translation of William Dampier’s travel logue: ‘Nieuwe Reistogt rondom de Wereld …’ (A New Voyage Round the World), published in Nijmegen by Isaac van Campen, 1771.

Made by Jan Lamsvelt after an anonymous artist. Engraver: Jan van Lamsvelt (Dutch; 1674-1743) mostly worked as engraver for the publisher Van der Aa.

Condition: Very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: PANAMA-NATIVES-INDIANS-BLOODLETTING

PCO-C11-23

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Dimensions 15 × 15 × 1 cm

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