Catalog Archive
Auction 99, Lot 11

"The Varieties of the Human Race", Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel

Subject: Title Page

Period: 1835 (circa)

Publication: Comprehensive Atlas

Color: Hand Color

Size:
8.2 x 10.4 inches
20.8 x 26.4 cm
Download High Resolution Image
(or just click on image to launch the Zoom viewer)

Fully colored vignettes of the five races, namely American, African, Caucasian, Malay and Mongol. Very skillfully engraved using stipple and dot-and-lozenge style of crosshatching to achieve tonality and modeling of the figures.

References:

Condition: B

Age toned with a little surface soil. Original color.

Estimate: $50 - $60

Sold for: $55

Closed on 6/12/2002

Archived