Portrait and profile of a 20-year-old Khoekhoe or Khoikhoi man of South Africa. With figure of foot 3, hand 4, finger 5 and locks of curly hair 6,7. Der Hottentots oder Buschmann. Drawn and engraved from life by Johann Friedrich Schroter of Leipzig. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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