Antique Costume Print-LOANGA-ANGOLA-AFRICA-Stuart-Portman-Kuyper-1802

Line engraving and stipple engraving. Original hand colouring. Vellin type paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 12.5 x 22 cm. The image size is ca. 9.5 x 14.5 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 4.9 x 8.7 inch. The image size is ca. 3.7 x 5.7 inch.

Plate: ‘Loangers.’ (Inhabitants of Loanga-Angola, Africa.) Loango-Angola is the name for the possessions of the Dutch West India Company in contemporary Angola and the Republic of the Congo. Notably, the name refers to the colony that was occupied from the Portuguese between 1641 and 1648. After Angola was recaptured by the Portuguese in 1648, Dutch trade with Loango-Angola did not stop, however. From about 1670 onward, the Dutch West India Company acquired slaves from the Loango region on a regular basis, and Dutch free traders continued this practice until after 1730. This scarse engraved plate originates from: ‘De mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol beschreven door Martinus Suart, afgebeeld door Jacques Kuyper.’, 1st ed. in 6 parts, published by Johannes Allart, Amsterdam, 1802. This famous anthropological work was ‘the first Dutch treatise on geographical anthropology… Quite a few plates are after the travel accounts of Captain Cook, La Pérouse, Carver, Levaillant, etc…’ (Landwehr).Artists and Engravers: Author: Martinus Stuart (Dutch preacher, historian: 1765-1826). Engraved by Louis Portman after Jacques Kuyper.

Condition: Excellent. General age related toning. Occasional very light staining in margins only. Please study scan.

Keywords: ANTIQUE COSTUME PRINT-LOANGA-ANGOLA-AFRICA-STUART-PORTMAN-KUYPER

(PCO) C66-26