Homme du Cap de Diemen. Enfant du Cap Diemen.

$A 475

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Historically important engraving of the Tasmanian aborigines depicted as noble savages depicted. The concept of the noble savage, was proposed by the Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau in his, Discourse on Inequality (1754).

From, Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiere (1755-1834), “Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Perouse”