Lithograph: "laundresses In Rio De Janeiro" Restoration Period

Framed lithograph: "Laundresses of Rio de Janeiro". Lithographer Engelmann Godefroy (1788-1839)Lithographed by Deroi LaurentDrawing from nature by Rugendas Johann Moritz (1802-1858)
4th div Pl 11
France, 1822-1828
Good condition, foxing.

NB: Rugendas, Bavarian painter, traveled to Brazil between 1822 and 1825 as a draftsman for the scientific mission of Baron Georg Henrich von Langsdorff and traveled through the provinces of Minas Gerais, Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro.
He drew landscapes, fauna and flora, indigenous peoples, but also Black people, most often reduced to slavery.
This subject of the laundresses of Rio de Janeiro is an example.

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