Pivati Gianfrancesco - How the American Indigenous Deal with Death - Etching on paper (1746/51)
Lot 73 · Auction 05 - Old Master Prints and Maps · 15 April 2025
Estimate: £100 - £200
How the American indigenous deals with Death is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati.
This original print, representing three pictures with captures about how the American indigenous deals with Death and Desease, is from the series New Scientific and Curious Dictionary concerning the Sacred and the Profane, Tome VIII, Plate LI, published by Benedetto Milocco in Venice in 1746-1751, concerning the Uses and Costumes, Religious Rites of people.