IMAGE
[Sainson, Louis Auguste de], 1801-1887 :Bewohner der Insel Tikopia; habitans de l'ile Tikopia. Fuchs del; lith v[on] Honegger [Zurich, Honeger, 1840?]
- Date
- 1827 - 1840 - 1828 - 1845
- By
- Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Fuchs, Charles, 1803-1874
- Reference
- A-340-060
- Description
Shows head and shoulders portraits of four young men of Tikopia in the Solomon Islands. All except the figure at lower left are tattooed and bearded. The figure at lower left wears a necklace, and the man at upper right wears a disc-shaped pendant on a cord around his neck. The two right hand figures each wear a gold earring.
Other variations of this image show the figures in reverse.
Other Titles - Inhabitants of the island of Tikopia
Sainson made the original drawings for these subjects in 1827 or 1828. An example of this image by Fuchs and Honegger, but in reverse, was published in 1845, in Heinrich Rudolf Schinz' "Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschieden en Rassen und Stamme nach den neuesten Entdeckungen und vorzuglichsten Originalien" (3rd edition, 1845).
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Handcoloured lithograph, on sheet 356 x 257 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Lithographs, Portraits, Ethnographic illustrations, Handcoloured lithograph, on sheet 356 x 257 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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