Name: Antique Master Print-HABITS-OF-THE-AMERICANS-THOMAS-SALMON-Salmon-1752
SKU: PICTURA-06506
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Antique Master Print-HABITS-OF-THE-AMERICANS-THOMAS-SALMON-Salmon-1752

€195.00

‘HABITS OF THE AMERICANS.’

– Engraving depicting two indigenous figures, a man and a woman, dressed in traditional attire. The man wears a feathered headdress, carries a bow and arrows, and holds a staff, while the woman holds a flower. The background features palm trees and an open landscape. This print is part of The Universal Traveller (1752) by Thomas Salmon, a travel book illustrating various cultures and customs.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

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

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, AMERICAN NATIVES, 18TH-CENTURY ETHNOGRAPHY, TRADITIONAL CLOTHING, THOMAS SALMON, TRAVEL BOOKS, HISTORICAL ENGRAVINGS, COLONIAL-ERA ILLUSTRATIONS, NATIVE ATTIRE, ANTHROPOLOGY PRINTS | PCO-E9-43

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in The Universal Traveller: Or, A Compleat Description of the Several Nations of the World by Thomas Salmon, 1752.

Reference: The Universal Traveller, Plate 224, Vol. 2, Page 541.

Biography artist: Thomas Salmon was mostly self-educated English historian who also lived in both the East and West Indies. He sailed with Lord Anson on his 1740-1744 circumnavigation. He published numerous works in world gazetteers, geographical grammars and histories, and travel narratives.