IMAGE
[Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques], 1757-1810 :Homme de Taiti. Imp B Jollivet. T[ome] 5. pl[ate] 1. Page 5.
- Date
- 1838
- By
- Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810; B. Jollivet (Firm)
- Reference
- A-384-063
- Description
Shows a full length portrait of a tattooed man wearing a blue cloth draped around his waist and over his right arm which holds a long staff. His tattoos resemble crescent moons, Z shapes, circles and suns. He wears his hair in a topknot with a feather standing up from it.
Hand colouring may be twentieth century; other examples of this publication exist in black & white.
Other Titles - Man of Tahiti; Volume
Extended Title - From Pierre Sylvain Marechal "Costumes civils de tous les peuples", avec une notice historique sur les moeurs, usages... de chaque peuple, 3rd edition, Guincamp; B Jollivet, 1837-1838.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Imp B Jollivet
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Handcoloured engraving on sheet 220 x 138 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Handcoloured engraving on sheet 220 x 138 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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