RICHARD, Alfred (1824-1880)

Lot 173
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Lot 173 | RICHARD, Alfred (1824-1880)
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£ 3 000 – 4 000
RICHARD, Alfred (1824-1880)

[Types mauriciens. Port-Louis, Mauritius: Devaux & Cie, 1850].

Rare and important suite of plates recording the peoples of Mauritius and their dress. Richard, a leading Mauritian artist of the mid-19th century, depicts the multi-faceted nature of the population of Mauritius, with its descendants from French colonisers, Indian plantation workers and Chinese traders. Other subjects include the wife of a small business owner, a Muslim milk seller, a Parsi merchant, a Muslim barber, and a Persian groom. Toussaint & Adolphe Bibliography of Mauritius A642 (calling for 25pp. text and 25 plates); Bobins IV, 1258. No complete copy can be traced at auction (RBH).



Small folio (346 x 255mm). 12 lithographic plates, coloured by a contemporary hand and 4 plain lithographic plates, captions in English and French, pink tissue guards (without the 25pp. of text called for by Toussaint & Adolphe, some variable spotting, affecting the plain plates more heavily, some faint creasing to top corners). Contemporary morocco-backed blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered ‘Album’ in centre of upper cover and thus titled on spine in second compartment, other compartments with small foliate tool, gilt edges (expert repairs at head- and tail of spine, recornered, extremities lightly rubbed).





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