General
General
Object Auto ID
75249
Common Name
Engraving
Classified Name
Engraving
Quantity
1.00
Object Description

The Parliament Collection:
An African man looking straight at the viewer. He wears some traditonal decorations including a necklace of small animal bones, and holds several long spears in his left hand. (Part of a book, see 5326)Voyage de M. Le Vaillant dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance, dans annes 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84, qnd 85.; Le Caffre [sic]

Provenance

Mendelssohn Bequest 1922

Description
Distinguishing Features

traditional decorations spears

Measurement Type Unit Value
Dimension Comments
Bound in a book; 290 mm
History
Object Age Comment
1780 (1790)
Maker Comment
LE VAILLANT, Francois, 1753-1824
Production Place
Paris
Collector Comment
Hand-coloured engraving
Date Retrieved Reference Types Citation
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