"[Lot of 7 Brazilian engravings]", Rugendas, Moritz

Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858) traveled extensively throughout Brazil on two extended expeditions. A trained painter, these lithographs are considered as important documentation in the study of Brazilian life at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This remarkable work was published in German and French. Five folio sheets with composite head & shoulder portraits of Brazilian Indians. Includes: Purl; Coropos; Botocudos; Camacan and another showing nine heads plus two masks. Beautifully rendered portraiture. Plus two others from the same series: one showing a religious funeral and method of wrapping the corpse, another of a plant titled "Melastoma aspergillaris". Rare.

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Condition: A

Beautiful impressions. A little foxing on Coropos, mostly away from images, still very good.