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Caption: Native town in Benin, Africa. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.
Credit: Album / Florilegius
Image size: 4879 × 3921 px | 54.7 MB
Print size: 41.3 × 33.2 cm | 1920.9 × 1543.7 in (300 dpi)