Portrait of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Born 15 February 1811 in San Juan, Argentina. Died 11 September 1888 in Asuncion, Paraguay. Steel engraving by Carl Ferdinand Mayer (1798-1868), or workshop, c. 1870. Reasonable condition. Paper slightly browned and slightly soiled. Verso: blank. Note: dimensions reflect the entire leaf. Dimensions: 125 x 83 mm. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was Statesman, Writer, Activist, Intellectual, Minister of the Interior, President of Argentina, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Governor of San Juan, and Seventh President of Argentina.