INDIAN ON BUFFALO AMERICA MEXICO CANADA STATUE Allegory 1871 Art Print Engraving

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AMERICA

Artist: John Bell ____________ Engraver: W. Roffe

Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving

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AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING MADE IN THE EARLY 1870s!!

FROM THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: We have for some time past been preparing a series of engravings from the allegorical sculptures that form a prominent feature in the ornamentation of the National Memorial of the late Prince Consort, in Hyde Park; while we reserve, till the completion of the work, whatever may be necessary to say concerning it as a whole.

The first of these groups is now introduced: it is that symbolizing AMERICA, and is by John Bell, a sculptor whose works have long given him a leading position in his profession, and which this group, by its spirited and appropriate conception, and the vigorous yet refined manner of execution, cannot fail to increase. The central figure represents AMERICA as a quarter of the globe, mounted on a bison, charging through the long prairie grass. Their advance is directed on the one side by the UNITED STATES, and on the other by CANADA, who presses the Rose of England to her bosom. The seated figures in the composition are MEXICO and SOUTH AMERICA. The details and emblems are as follows: the figure of America is of the Indian type; she is habited in native costume, and wears a feathered head-dress: the housings of her wild charger-a noble animal, by the way-are of the skin of a grisly bear. In her right hand is a stone-pointed lance, with Indian "totems" of the grey squirrel and humming-bird; and in her left she bears a shield with blazons of the principal divisions of the hemisphere- the eagle for the States; the beaver for Canada; the lone star for Chili; the volcanoes for Mexico; the alpaca for Peru; and the southern cross for Brazil. In the rear, aroused by the tread of the bison through the grass, is a rattlesnake.

The features of the figure representing the United States are of the North-American Anglo-Saxon type. Her tresses are surmounted by an eagle's plume and by a star, which is repeated on her baldrick, and at the point of the sceptre in her right hand; while in her left is a wreath formed by leaves of the evergreen oak, as an emblem of the Northern States, and a blossom of the Magnolia, grandiflora as that of the Southern. At her feet lies the Indian's quiver, with but one or two arrows in it. Canada, who is habited in furs, shows features of a more English type. In her head-dress are woven the maple-leaf of the mainland, and the May-flower of Nova Scotia. In her right hand are ears of wheat-corn being one of her most important productions--and at her feet are a pair of snow-shoes, &c. Mexico, a male figure, is characterized by a face somewhat of the Aztec type: his emblems are a Mexican head-dress, staff, and feather-cincture; with the cochineal cactus at his feet. He is in the attitude of rising, restless and disturbed, from his panther's skin.

In the figure of South America, we appear to recognize the half-bred type, Indian and Spaniard: seated on a rock, he is habited in sombrero and and Indian girdle; in his left hand is the horseman's short carbine of the country, and in his right a lasso. Close to him is a Brazilian orchid, a horn of the wild cattle of the plains. It will be evident from these brief details how much of studied thought has been given to the entire composition.

BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST: John Bell (b Hepton, Suffolk, 1811 or 1812; d London, 14 March 1895) was an English sculptor. He enrolled at the Royal Academy in 1829 and attracted attention there with The Eagleslayer (1837), of which versions were made in bronze, marble (c. 1844; Wentworth Woodhouse, S. Yorks) and iron (1851; London, Bethnal Green Mus. Childhood). The latter, cast by the Coalbrookdale Company, was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851, placed under a canopy with the slain eagle at the top. Prestigious commissions followed, including statuary for the Houses of Parliament: Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (marble, 1848) and Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (marble, 1854). Bell's best-known public sculptures are the Guards' Crimean War memorial (bronze, 1860; London, Waterloo Place) and America, part of the Albert Memorial (marble, 1864-9; London, Kensington Gdns). Both show his stylistic and iconographic compromise between Neo-classical tradition and meticulous contemporary realism. Bell's works on imagined subjects, many of which were reproduced in Parian porcelain by W. T. Copeland and by Henry Cole's Art-Manufactures, include Babes in the Wood (marble, 1842; London, V&A); Andromeda (bronze, c. 1851; Osborne House, Isle of Wight, Royal Col.); and The Octoroon (marble, 1868; Blackburn, Town Hall), the eroticism of which was influenced by Hiram Powers. Bell was more innovative as an industrial designer than as an artist. His creations include fish-knives, a table supported by cast-iron deerhounds (1845) for the Coalbrookdale Company, a matchbox shaped like a crusader's tomb (1848) and a cast-iron Cerberus doorstop (1849). He was a prolific correspondent and also published some essays, including 'Colour on Statues and Paintings' (1861), 'The Principle of Entasis as Applied to the Obelisk' (1862) and 'The Lost Venus of Knidos' (1894).

PRINT DATE:This lithograph was printed in the 1870s; it is not a modern reproduction in any way.

PRINT SIZE:Overall print size is 9 inches by 12 inches including white borders, actual scene is 6 1/2 inches by 7 inches.

PRINT CONDITION: Condition is fine. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse.

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Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, print, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, NOT blocks of steel or wood. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were inserted into the book with a tissue guard frontis, usually on much thicker quality rag stock paper, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper.

 

EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS EXCELLENT CONDITION!

  • Date of Creation: 1800-1899
  • Original/Reproduction: Original Print
  • Print Type: Engraving

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