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Pampa Indian - Emeric Essex Vidal - Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video (1820)

Pampa Indian - Emeric Essex Vidal - Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video (1820)

Emeric Essex Vidal (d. 1861)

Pampa Indians, from "Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, consisting of twenty-four views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c., of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs". Engraving by Emeric Vidal (1843), based on a sketch made between 1816 and 1819. It shows two Pampas Indians visiting Buenos Aires. The two individuals pose at the door of a store in the Indian market of the city where ponchos, leather clothing, and rhea feathers were traded for acohol, mate, sugar, foodstuff, and metal tools. From: The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford (2098 e. 65 following p. 88 (Facsimile)). Source of this file description is Peter Mitchell: Horse Nations. The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492, Oxford 2015, Fig. 8.6, p. 266.

Fecha
1843
Lugar
Buenos Aires
Institución
Wikimedia Commons
Colección
Acuarelas de Emeric Essex Vidal (1816–1819)
Derechos
Public domain
Temas
Argentina in the 1810sPicturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video (1820)

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