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Auction 196, Lot 343
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"Bresiliens", Mallet, Alain Manesson

Subject: Brazil, Native Americans

Period: 1684 (published)

Publication: Beschreibung des Gantzen Welt-Kreisses...

Color: Hand Color

Size:
3.9 x 5.6 inches
9.9 x 14.2 cm
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This engraving shows a tribe of cannibals in Brazil. The men wear feathered headdresses and attack a man with a spear and bows and arrows. Beside them are two severed heads on spikes, while in the background several women cook body parts over a fire.

References: King (2nd ed.) pp. 152-53; Pastoureau, MANESSON-MALLET I B.

Condition: A

A dark impression with light printer's ink residue and a small chip at bottom.

Estimate: $80 - $95

Sold for: $50

Closed on 2/7/2024

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