[Reprograph (monochrome collotype?) of a copper plate engraving for p. 288 of 'Rock-paintings in SA...']

[Reprograph (monochrome collotype?) of a copper plate engraving for p. 288 of 'Rock-paintings in SA...']

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Monochrome collotype of a copper plate engraving

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A reprograph integrating a copper plate engraving with a subsequent, penned inscription that reads, 'Ragel, A Female Hottentot. of last century according to Le Vaillant'.

Ragel (the 'Hottentot' woman depicted), engraving (by an unknown artist used by François Le Vaillant), Travels into the interior of Africa (an eighteenth-century work by Le Vaillant)

The illustrator for 'Ragel, A Female Hottentot' from François Le Vaillant's 'Travels into the interior of Africa' (1790) is unnamed in the available sources, but the image was published with the first edition of the book in 1790. The engraving was possibly done by Perrier (for maps), Van-Leen (for animals), Reinold (for birds), or another engraver who worked with Le Vaillant. Consult Ian Glenn's 'The Original Scene of Anthropology: Levaillant's Illustrations of Visiting the Gonaqua' (2020) in Visual Anthropology (33[4], pp. 301-312).