Chute du Tequendama / dessiné d'après une esquisse de Mr. de Humboldt ; et gravé par Gmelin à Rome.
Summary
Illustration showing a waterfall on the Bogotá River in the Tequendama Province, Colombia.
Illus. in: Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Alexander von Humboldt. Paris : F. Schoell, 1810 [i.e. 1813?], Planche VI, opp. p. 19.
Plate 6.
Exhibited: "Creating the Early Americas" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.