Opening: $200 Hammer Price: $200 SOLD Skylight Gallery 18 March 2004

"N.if d' Amnoubang, Ile Timor. (Malaisie Océanie) ... après les crânes naturels, photographié par Bisson..." Lithographic plate reproducing six daguerreotypes of human skulls by Louis-Auguste Bisson ca. 1841. Plate 37 from the illustrative supplement to Dumont D'Urville, "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie..." (1842-7). Print size 11.25 x 14.5 inches (29x37 cm).   ( Inventory# ha16.37 )

This plate from a rare publication illustrates one of the earliest scientific uses of the daguerreotype.

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