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Sauvage Iroquois – Historic Reproduction

Sauvage Iroquois, 1796 — antique engraving
Sauvage Iroquois, 1796. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Sauvage Iroquois, an antique engraving rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A colored engraving of an Iroquois man, the figure is labeled "Sauvage Iroquois" and comes from plate 29 of a French travel compendium published in Paris in 1796. Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810) drew the original, and J. Laroque engraved and colored the print. Such plates were part of a late eighteenth-century European fashion for costume studies of peoples across the world, which were often based on secondhand accounts and idealized or stereotyped depictions. Viewers today may note the gap between the title's wording and the Haudenosaunee peoples the image claims to show.

Created / published1796
Medium1 print : engraving, colored.
NotesColored engraving by J. Laroque after drawing by Jaques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. Illus. in: Encyclopédie des Voyages... / Jacques Grosset de Saint-Sauveur. Paris: Delroy, 1796, pl. 29. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sources checked: Laroque, J: MUMS; Th-B, Benezit. Grasset: PREM : Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810.; MUMS, LCNA.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,039 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117390

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