Print of steel engraving titled „Famille de Pecheurs Indiens sur la Magdalena“.

Drawn by unknown.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Ameriques. Resume general de tous les voyages“ by M. Alcide D‘Orbigny. Paris. 1836.

Magdalena es uno de los 32 departamentos de Colombia. Fue uno de los originales nueve estados que conformaron los Estados Unidos de Colombia. Está al norte del país, en la Región Caribe Colombiana. La capital del departamento es Santa Marta. El Departamento toma el nombre del río que lo baña por su lado occidental Magdalena. en el norte limita con el Mar Caribe, al sur con el departamento de Bolívar, al oriente con los departamentos de Cesar y La Guajira, y al occidente con los departamentos de Atlántico y Bolívar. Su territorio ocupa una superficie de 23.188 km².

Colombia is a country situated in the northwest of South America, bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments.The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, with its capital at Bogotá. Independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 "Gran Colombia" had collapsed with the secession of Venezuela and Ecuador. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada. The new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation (1858), and then the United States of Colombia (1863), before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903.

Approx. image size 12, 8 x 9, 3/17, 2 x 13, 7 cm.Condition: medium.

Condition: medium.