Oceania Traditional New Guinea Tattoo Black Aboriginal from Princess Marianne/Deer Luxury Pillow

This extravagant handmade-to-order cushion features the "Inbooring van de straat Prinses Mariane Nicuw-Guinea” character from a hand-colored Karl Joseph Brodtmann stone lithograph from H.R. Schinz's 1840 Naturgeschichte und Abbidungen des Menschen. Brodtmann was part of the post-Linnaean Age of Enlightenment, hand-colouring sets for biologists and the aristocracy. Brodtmann's work displayed a remarkable sense of aesthetics and scientific accuracy.