Sauvage de la Nouvelle Zeelande & Jeune Sauvage de la Nouvelle Zeelande
Copper-line engraving. 1817. 300mm by 450mm (platemark). Depicts head and shoulders portraits of a bearded Maori man (on the left) and of a young Maori boy. Both have ear adornments and hair in a topknot and the older man has a flax garment beneath his chest.
From Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardiere's (1755-1834) 'Atlas du Voyage a la recherche de la Perouse', published in Paris, 1817 edition." Item #1166
Price: $550.00
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