Zulus, Summer 1853

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NICOLAAS HENNEMAN
Zulus, Summer 1853
5 lightly-coated salt prints from calotype negatives
each signed by Robert Murray in ink on mount
varying sizes from 3 3/8 x 4 3/8in. (8.4 x 11cm.) to 6 3/8 x 5in. (16.1 x 12.6cm.) or reverse (5)

Provenance

As lot 13.

Literature

B. Lindfors (ed.), Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business, Bloomington, Indiana, 1999, p.64, for woodcuts, based on Henneman's photographs, published in the Illustrated London News, 15 September 1853 (3 images from this lot are portrayed in the advertisement); G. Buckland, First Photographs: People, Places & Phenomena as Captured for the First Time by the Camera, London, 1980, p.252, for one image from this lot.

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Lot Essay

Includes a trimmed piece from another mount, credited, titled "Earthmen/Photograph by Henneman" and signed by Robert Murray in the same manner as the "Aztecs" photograph. Although lacking the actual print, this annotated mount fragment further confirms that Henneman photographed all three groups -- the Zulus, the Aztecs and the Earthmen -- that were exhibited together in London during the summer of 1853.

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