Heads of African, Asian and American natives. Album of drawings by Jasper Adolphe Grant, 18--.

Label on front pastedown inscribed : Native studies by Jasper Grant

[between 1800 and 1899]

1 album (15 drawings) : pencil ; sheets approximately 23.5 x 17.4 cm

Native studies by Jasper Grant Drawings signed in pencil "Jasper Grant". Front flyleaf verso signed in ink, apparently by the same hand, "Jasper Adolphe Grant"

Natives of : Gaboon (fol. 1r) ; Santa Cruz (fol. 2r) ; "A bedouin of Sinai" (fol. 3r); Senegal (fol. 4r) ; Macina [?] (fol. 5r) ; Mozambique Coast (fol. 6r) ; "A Hindoo fakir" (fol. 7r) ; Senegal (fol. 8r) ; Zambesi (fol. 9r) ; "A Sioux squaw and child" (fol. 10r) ; "A gorilla" (fol. 11r) ; "A Hottentot woman" (fol. 12r) ; "Painted Mundruan [?] Indian woman (fol. 13r) ; "Bush negroe of Guina [i.e. Guinea] (fol. 14r) ; "Mura [?] Indian with teeth-'ornaments' and tattooing on the cheecks [sic]" (fol. 15r)

The author Jasper Adolphe Grant may have been the son of Jasper Grant (1762-1812), a British military man who was for a time stationed in Canada where he collected native artefacts. The eldest son of Jasper Grant was also called Jasper (Ruth B. Phillips, Patterns of power, Kleinburg, Ont.: The McMichael Collection, 1984, p. 17). The Grant family correspondence is in the National Library of Ireland, MSS 10,177-10,178 (Phillips, op. cit., p. 20) and/or MS 31,820 (NLI online catalogue)

Wellcome Collection 27475i