Native Skulls from Timor
SOLD 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).
This plate from a rare publication illustrates one of the earliest scientific uses of the daguerreotype.
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