Stéphane Pannemaker (engravings)


Gaucho des environs de Buenos-Ayres.


Maxourounas (Brésil)

Jeune dame mulâtre

Stephane Pannemaker was a member of a German family of engravers, who were known for producing wood engravings with hard, metallic lines and sharp contrast of lights and darks.

The pictures above are from a Gallica web page about a book with engravings of whole world, intitled Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peoples du Monde (1844). The sellectioned pics are about engravings made on Brazil and Latin America.

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