Natives with Tatoos, New Zealand
SOLD March 2004 |
"Natif ... après les bustes moulés sur nature, photographié par Bisson..." Lithographic plate reproducing two daguerreotypes after plaster casts of New Zealand natives, by Louis-Auguste Bisson ca. 1841. Plate 14 from the illustrative supplement to Dumont D'Urville, "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie..." (1842-7). Print size 12 x 15 inches (30x38 cm).
This plate from a rare publication illustrates one of the earliest scientific uses of the daguerreotype.
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