Hawaiian Islands / Sandwich Islands
Meissen, Germany, 1835–1840
Lithograph
Mat: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm); image: 4½ × 5½ in. (11.4 × 14 cm)
This lithograph depicts the house of the first minister to the King of Hawai‘i, published in Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche’s Vollständige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen. The image belongs to a nineteenth-century European visual record of the peoples of America and Australia, issued in Meissen between 1835 and 1840. It presents a Hawaiian domestic and chiefly setting through the lens of printed ethnographic illustration.
The scene shows the residence with figures nearby, including a guard and a woman engaged in material work. A surfboard is visible in the composition, adding a specific Hawaiian cultural detail to the architectural subject. The lithograph is small in scale but useful as a period image of Hawaiian life as represented for a European audience.
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Hawaiian Islands / Sandwich Islands
Meissen, Germany, 1835–1840
Lithograph
Mat: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm); image: 4½ × 5½ in. (11.4 × 14 cm)
This lithograph depicts the house of the first minister to the King of Hawai‘i, published in Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche’s Vollständige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen. The image belongs to a nineteenth-century European visual record of the peoples of America and Australia, issued in Meissen between 1835 and 1840. It presents a Hawaiian domestic and chiefly setting through the lens of printed ethnographic illustration.
The scene shows the residence with figures nearby, including a guard and a woman engaged in material work. A surfboard is visible in the composition, adding a specific Hawaiian cultural detail to the architectural subject. The lithograph is small in scale but useful as a period image of Hawaiian life as represented for a European audience.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
