Dessiné par Mr N. Desmons.Lith. par A. Guesdon.
Imp. Lemercier, Pris. [n.d., 1855.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet. 395 x 850mm (15½ x 33½"). Extensive tear, repaired, cracking, surface abrasion, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
A Brazilian fazenda (plantation) building, with some of the black workers dancing outside. Iluchar Desmons (b.1803) settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1840. In 1855 he published ''Panoramas de la Ville de Rio de Janeiro'', with thirteen lithographs. He often signed his plates with 'N Desmons'.
[Ref: 54161] £450.00
Imp. Lemercier, Pris. [n.d., 1855.]
Rare tinted lithograph. Sheet. 395 x 850mm (15½ x 33½"). Extensive tear, repaired, cracking, surface abrasion, laid on archival paper. Damaged.
A Brazilian fazenda (plantation) building, with some of the black workers dancing outside. Iluchar Desmons (b.1803) settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1840. In 1855 he published ''Panoramas de la Ville de Rio de Janeiro'', with thirteen lithographs. He often signed his plates with 'N Desmons'.
[Ref: 54161] £450.00