PORTOBELLO PANAMA 1721 AVELINE UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW

Description

PORTOBELLO PANAMA 1721 AVELINE UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW
PORTOBELLO PANAMA 1721 AVELINE UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW
Description
Foire de Porto bello.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed
fine
scarce 1721 A. Aveline's copper engraved panoramic scene depicting a  Market day or fair in Portobello, Panama. Includes native Americans unloading goods from boats, men weighting and selling goods, dwellings, casks, chest, market stalls, settlement, fleet of ships being saluted from fortifications, carts, and donkeys.
The plate describes how the prices of goods and number of people increase as soon as the Spanish fleet arrived in Portobello.
Source:
Thomas Gage. Nouvelle Relation contenant les Voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne avec la Description de Mexique. A Amsterdam:
Chez Paul Marret, dans le Beurs-straat, proche le Dam à la Renommée. 1721
Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar, returned to England after several decades in Spanish America, became a Protestant and a principal advisor to Oliver Cromwell.
Date:
1712 approx, ( undated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm
24,3 x 16,5
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Margin to the top missing. Wide lower margin. Wide right lateral margin. Quite left lateral margin. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
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