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Bastard Hottentot or mixed blood Hottentot, wearing his sheepskin clothes

Bastard Hottentot or mixed blood Hottentot, wearing his sheepskin clothes
(Afrique Australe: Bastaard-Hottentot, ou Hottentot métis, revetu de ses habits de peau de mouton)
1824
plate 55 in the Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes (Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands) atlas. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1824, 2nd edition

Medium
hand-coloured stipple engraving and engraving printed in brown and black ink
Measurements
31.5 × 24.1 cm (plate) 34.7 × 27.2 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
printed in ink above image u.r.: 55
printed in ink below image l.l.-l.r.: N.Petit del. J.Milbert direx. F.res (res in superscript above . ) Lambert sculp.
printed in ink below image l.c.: AFRIQUE AUSTRALE . BASTÂARD = HOTTENTOT Revêtu des ses Habits de peau de Mouton . / De l'Imprimerie de Langlois .
Accession Number
2010.96.56
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Joe White Bequest, 2010
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display

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