Costume of a king of the Kingdom of Whydah, Africa (now Benin). . In Louis XIV perruque or wig, justacorps coat, sash belt, holding an arquebus. Possibly a portrait of King Haffon (1695–1727), last ruler of the kingdom. Roi de Juida. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

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