Sujet

Gold ornaments from the graves of the Incas of Peru - Inca hairpin, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Gold ornaments from the graves of the Incas of Peru - Inca hairpin, 1883. Item from '...a very interesting and unique collection of gold ornaments from the "Huacas" or graves of the Incas of Peru. They were obtained by Senor Don Leocadio Maria Arango, of Medellin, during a residence of thirty years in that country, but have now passed into the collection of Lady Brassey... Gold, in the figurative language of the people, was the substance of "the tears wept by the Sun."... Fig. 20 [is a] flattened hairpin of the most yellow gold, a true Inca ornament'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A50_125

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

744,5Ko (60,1Ko) / 41,3cm x 7,7cm / 1171 x 217 (72dpi)

Mots clés

South America arts country metal art continent British death tomb gold mausoleum South American location century burial Britain newspapers press Peru Peruvian print artefacts artefact concept INCA artifacts artifact B&W engraved engraving hairpin 19th century black & white black and white B W Incan nineteenth century Pre-Columbian The Print Collector burial goods grave goods hair pin Illustrated London News preColombian Pre-Colombian preColumbian wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Brassey Lady Anna Annie 19th-century The Illustrated London News Anna Brassey Anna Allnutt Allnutt Lady Brassey Baroness Brassey Annie Brassey Leocadio Mar?a Arango Uribe Uribe Leocadio Mar?a Arango Leocadio Maria Arango Uribe Leocadio Maria Arango