1-625-039 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lateral view of the skull or profile, 1848. Comparison of the skulls of European and African humans with those of the chimpanzee and orang-utan. During the 19th century, it was believed that negroes were less developed than Europeans. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848).