Indigenous People Depictions

Colorful engravings depicting men and women from various cultures, showcasing traditional attire and lifestyles in the 19th century.

Engraver: Paul Revere, American, 1735-1818, Philip, King of Mount Hope, from the Churchs The Entertaining History of King Philips War, Line engraving, colored by hand, sheet: 17.3 × 10.7 cm (6 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.), Made in United States, American, 18th century, Works on Paper - Prints

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Esclave du Mexique'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Man and woman of the Isle of Paques or Easter Island, 1818. They wear feather headdresses, cloaks and skirts, and the man holds a cudgel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

Man and woman of Senegal, 1818. The man carries a bow and quiver of arrows. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

Inhabitants of California, America, 1818. They wear feather headdresses, and the woman wears a grass skirt and carries a basket on a stick. The land was inhabited by Chumash, Ohlone, Maidu, Miwok, Yokuts, and other tribes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

Mujer india de las cercanías del Orinoco. Grabado en color de 1805.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Femmes d'Issinie Pilant du Riz'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Negre de Zamamyl. Illustrations, Prints. 1826 - 1827. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Egypt , Description and travel

One of Set of Nine Watercolors showing Indians in Different Professions One of Set of Nine Watercolors showing Indians in Different Professions, 19th century. Watercolor on paper, 8 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (21.3 x 16.8 cm). Asian Art 19th century

Nomadic Giagas or Gallas, a ferocious, warlike people from Sierra Leone who destroyed the Kingdom of Benguela (Angola), depicted with spears, shields and cudgels. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Roberto Freschi from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.

Engraver: Paul Revere, American, 1735-1818, Philip, King of Mount Hope, from the Churchs The Entertaining History of King Philips War, Line engraving, colored by hand, sheet: 17.3 × 10.7 cm (6 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.), Made in United States, American, 18th century, Works on Paper - Prints

Carington Bowles, 1724-1793, British, Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe, 1783.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Femme de Qualité, et Femme du Commun du Royaume de Benin'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Food and meal preparation, Florida, United States of America, engraving from Etats-Unis d'Amerique, by Roux de Rochelle, L'Univers Pittoresque, published by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1837.

Bihishtee or water carrier, with mushk of panee (goatskin water bag), wearing loincloth and turban. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.

Island of Madagascar. Rohandriano and his wife visiting the island. Engraving. Panorama Universal. History of the Islands Madagascar, Bourbon and Mauritius, 1850.

Patagonian giants, both men and women standing seven foot tall. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Homme de l'Isle d'Amboine'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Nama man of South Africa in fur cape, codpiece and hold spear, and Nama woman in robe with beaded belt, necklace and armbands. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

Tattooed Acadian man with ax and quiver of arrows holding hunted game, and male and female natives of Canada, man in cape with bow, quiver and ax, and woman in tunic. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

Natives of Gona (Angola) above, man with bow and arrow, woman with beaded apron, child in loincloth, and Khoikhoi man in fur cape with spear and Khoikhoi woman in fur cape over beaded belts and apron. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

A mermaid, situated on a rock. Etching by J. Godby, 1814, after L. Gahagan.

Captain Wallis and Queen Oberea at Tahiti (Il Capitano Wallis e la Regina Oberea a Tahiti) prints, etchings, works on paper

Brazza, Pierre-Paul Savorgnan de (1852-1905). French explorer and navigator of Italian origin. Brazza trip to Ogowe and Congo. The great fetish of King Makoko welcoming Brazza. Engraving in "L'Illustration, Journel Universel".

An engraving depicting a giant clam being used as a bath tub. Dated 19th century

Dibujo político satírico de la época sobre la esclavitud en Latinoamérica aparecido en La Mosca Roja, número 1, época 2ª. Barcelona, 15 abril 1882.

A trophy

La situation de l'Italie. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). Lithographs

Kalaimanokahoowaha or Kanaina, Hawaiian chief with helmet and cloak made of feathers, and Poeta, his wife, in a feather lei necklace and beads in her hair. Warriors in kahuna gourd masks paddling a canoe. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.

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Menage as Champanzee in Perouse, John Nixon, ca. 1760-1818, British, 1801, Etching and aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 5 3/4 x 3 3/4in. (14.6 x 9.5cm)

Pusega, daughter of Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe. Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: Dec-1777 and/or Oct-1778. Place: Great Fish River (South Africa). Measurements: h 660 mm × w 480 mm; h 347 mm × w 232 mm; h 309 mm × w 222 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Engraving depicting a Marquesas Islander with a heavily tattooed body. The Marquesas Islands are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectively of France in the southern Pacific Ocean. Dated 19th Century

African ivory bearer. Tanzania. Africa. Drawing by Gustave Boulanger (1824-1886) Journey to the Great Lakes of East Africa, 1857-1859 by British explorer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) Le Tour du Monde 1860

'Silhouette "Catherine II in the Park at Tsarskoye Selo with the Family of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich"'. Russia, 1790s. Dimensions: 44x56 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Anonymous Artist, late 18th century.

The abominable / ah! Nasty scribbles, thanks to the gods, your reign has passed. / Or the Jacobin and the discord / sowing the crime and the terror on their not. (IT)

Mahote, chieftain of the Dange Xhosa, draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon, c. 1776 - 1777, paper, brush, pen, h 660 mm × w 480 mm, h 355 mm × w 219 mm

Hand-painting cotton cloth: India. Hand-coloured engraving published Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1822.

Negresse de Zamamyl. Illustrations, Prints. 1826 - 1827. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Egypt , Description and travel

Warrior of the Island of Hawai. Engraving. 19th century.

Governor of Abyssinia in breastplate with turban and upright ornament 67, eating raw flesh cut from a live cow 68, and the bridge over the cataract of Alala on the River Nile 68. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylors Scenes in Africa for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, Harris and Son, London, 1820.

Whipping of a female black slave. From Stedman 'Journal of Five Years Expedition against the Rebelling Blacks of Surinam 1772-77' London 1793. Hand-coloured engraving.

Central Africa. Rua indigenous who visits Ujiji territory. Drawing by Etienne Ronjat (1822-1912). Engraving by Charles Laplante (1837-1903). Africa inexplorada, el Continente Misterioso by Henry Morton Stanley, c. 1887.

Christopher Columbus arriving in the New World, 1492 (1817-1826). Artist: Bonatti

Robert Mabon, died 1798, British, A Native of Madagascar, undated. Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

L'enseignement mutuel. Dated: 19th century. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara S. Antonio in Polsine8. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture (15th century). Post-medieval: Frescoes (15th century); Baroque interior, choir loft, sculpture (15th century) German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Natives of the Gambier Islands on a raft, Polynesia, engraving by Danvin and Lebas from Oceanie ou Cinquieme partie du Monde, Revue Geographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronesie, de la Polynesie et de la Melanesie, by Louis Gabriel Domeny de Rienzi (1789-1843), L'Univers pittoresque, published by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1836.

Ancient Germanic warriors. They are naked except for animal skins with heads and antlers, and carry lances, clubs and wood and wicker shields. After Philipp Cluvers Germania Antiqua. Antichi Guerrieri Germani Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1837.

Floridians collecting gold. 16th century. French engraving, 1844. Drawing by Demoraine and engraving by Taillant.

Paul and Virginie are found by their slave Domingue and their dog Fidele when they are lost in the forests of Mauritius. Engraving.

The wild men of the Blue Mountains. (Die wilden der blauen Berge), 19th century, maker unknown. Acquisition history unknown.

After: Cornelius Krieghofj, Canadian, 1812-1872, IIndian Wigwam in LowerCanada, Lithograph by A. Borum, sheet: 45.5 × 57.5 cm (17 15/16 × 22 5/8in.), Made in Canada, Canadian, 19thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Roman Empire. Gladiators. From left to right: 13- gladiator armed with trident, 14- gladiator carrying shield and net, 15- gladiator carrying scythe, helmet and shield, 16- gladiator with helmet and shield, 17- gladiator carrying helmet, shield and dagger, 18- gladiator. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume II, 1881.

The Gonaqua chieftain, Ruiter.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Sauvagesse de la Terre de Feu'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Title Plate for 'Becker's Almanac for 1800'. Johann Wilhelm Meil (Germany, Altenburg, 1733-1805). Germany, 1778. Prints; etchings. Etching

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Le Tailleur depierres. Artist: Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French, 1792-1845

Warrior of the Hawaiian Islands. He wears a headdress decorated with mushrooms, face tattoos, cape and check shirt (a tattoo in the original). Guerrier des iles Sandwich. Adapted from an illustration by Jacques Arago in Louis de Freycinet's Voyage of the Uranie, 1820. Handcoloured woodcut by Lisbet after Jacques Arago from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

Chieftans of the Namaqualand region. Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon. Dating: c. Jul-1779 - Aug-1779. Place: Kaapprovincie. Measurements: h 660 mm × w 480 mm; h 360 mm × w 524 mm; h 294 mm × w 515 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Apes at an art class painting from a model. Date: 1828

Costumes de Différents Pays,'Femme de la Côte d'Or'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Slaves cultivating sugar cane in the West Indies. Hand-coloured wood engraving from Grandfather Grey 'The Wonders of Home' London, 1852.

Malagasy warrior with assegai and shield. Artist: Andries Beeckman. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1675 - c. 1725. Place: Netherlands. Measurements: h 320 mm × w 200 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Danakil Warriors. Illustrations. 1845. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Ethiopia

NEGROS DEL MONTE DE MANILA - FILIPINAS - PLUMA Y AGUADA DE TINTA CHINA CON ALBAYALDE - SIGLO XVIII - EXPEDICION MALASPINA. Author: JUAN RAVENET (1766-1821). Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Rahotep Prince of Ancient Egypt during the 4th dynasty. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1880

Portrait of Chieftain, Manjema, Africa, Illustration, 1885

Famille d'un chef Camacan se préparant pour une fête.. Debret, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Prints, Illustrations. 1834 - 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Brazil , Social life and customs, Families, Body painting, Clothing & dress, Rattles, Indians of South America , Brazil

Australian aborigines with bodypainting in charcoal and clay, and scarification. Borogegal man of Port Jackson at left. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustrations copied from Peron and Freycinet's "Voyage de Decouvertes aux terres Australes" 1807.

Chhata wala or umbrella carrier, in cotton loin cloth. Fringed umbrella in silk or red and blue curwah. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.

Womans braided hairstyle and jewelry, Senegambia, 18th century. Headress and ornaments of the negro women. Coiffure des negresses. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves LAfrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

Eh bonjour! enchanté de vous rencontrer... Dated: 1840. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

Costumes of a man and woman of the Tlingit nation, Port des Francais (Lituya Bay), Northwest coast of America (Alaska). The man wears a fur robe and hat and holds a mirror, the woman in furs and buckskin has a lip plate. Illustration by Gaspard Duche de Vancy from Jean Francois Laperouses Voyage. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Più Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817.

Naked Chamorro men and women mending and casting nets as they fish on the coast of the Mariana islands. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustration from Freycinet's "Voyage autour du monde," 1824.

Harvest on a date (Phoenix dactylifera), 1885, North Africa, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century painting, exact original date unknown

Watercolor illustration board by Vincenzo Brenna showing an ox-drawn cart carrying grain for the Vestigia delle Terme di Tito series, with cover colors, circa 1780.

Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae Gentium Habitus. Abraham de Bruyn (Flanders, Antwerp, 1540-1587). Belgium, 1540-1587. Books. Engraved on paper, some gouache coloring

A Chinese man is bound to a pole, has had an arrow shot through his ear as a punishment for insolence to a superior; a Chinese man holding a sign describing the crime; and a mandarin reproving the culprit. Coloured aquatint by W. Alexander, 1814.

GRABADO-CANOA DE INDIOS DE BRASIL- AMAZONAS. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Bouquetieres de St. Domingue'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Maison à louer, cheval et chèvre à vendre.. Debret, Jean Baptiste (1768-1848). Prints, Illustrations. 1834 - 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Brazil , Social life and customs, Women, Goats, Selling, Vendors and purchasers

Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s, Anglo-Indian, Two Jeyties Weightlifting, undated. Watercolor, white gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Indian Conibos, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852.

Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781-1845, British, active in India, Ordbhawn or Hindo Fakeer. Lithograph.

Leander Russs watercolor depicts an Italian landscape in 1843, created with cover colors and gloss enhancements over pencil traces, showing terrain, buildings, and vegetation.

Tombe, 19th Century, by Giovanni Sasso. Acquisition history unknown.

'Oberon and Titania', 1862. Artist: Unknown

Umpanda, King of the Amazulu, 1849, by George French Angas (1822-1886). South Africa, 19th century.

United States of America. 16th century French expedition. Florida. Natives fording a river. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588) made the illustrations during the expedition. 19th century engraving by Vernier after the original of Jacques Le Moyne. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'Amerique in 1837. Spanish edition, printed in Barcelona, 1850.

Costumes de Différents Pays, 'Habitants de l'Isle de Scio'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paper

Carington Bowles, 1724-1793, British, Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe, 1783.

Delimitation of the Franco German borders in Congo. Illustration from French newspaper Le Petit journal. November 2, 1913.

Florian, saint.

The king in his chariot, returning from battle (Kouyunjik) still image. 1849. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Chariots, Art , Nineveh (Extinct city), Assyria , Antiquities & archaeological sites, Bas-reliefs , Assyria, Chariots , Assyria, Soldiers , Assyrian , To 499, Kings, Horses

Bulto (San Acacio). Dated: 1938. Dimensions: overall: 54.5 x 40.3 cm (21 7/16 x 15 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 1/2 actual size. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Eldora P. Lorenzini.

Woman King Dahomey, heat, lying, sofa, canape, portrait, historical illustration 1881, Benin, Africa

Egypt. First wifes of the pharaoh. Engraving. Color.

Brazier's wife filing imperfections from a small brass artefact: India. Hand-coloured engraving published Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1822.

A Young Woman of Otaheite, bringing a Present, by John Webber, Francesco Bartolozzi.

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