A lovely example of mid-nineteenth-century lithography. This piece depicts seventy figures from Europe, Asia, the Pacific (Oceania), Africa and America, all in national costume.
The Pacific is represented by an Australian, two New Zealanders, a Hawaiian, a Polynesian (Nuka Hiva), and an Indonesia (from Sunda). America is more wide-ranging and includes Inuit, Sioux and Pani, Osage, Californian, a Mexicna, a Patagonian, and even a Greenlander.
Aristide-Michel Perrot (1794-1877) was a French geographer and cartographer, who specialised in making miniature maps. This image makes a nice companion to his later print of New World flora and fauna: Acclimatation Tableau représentant les Animaux, quadrupèdes, oiseaux, poissons, insectes …
Rare. OCLC locates a single copy at NLA (Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6244).
Not in Forbes; not in Ferguson.
