Figure C.1Academician Johann Gottlieb Georgi’s sketches of ethnic types, based on his
travels in the 1770s, became one of many such publications that fueled popular fascination
in the peoples of empire; his images, such as this Iakut hunter, were nonetheless stylized and
often touched up in later editions (here the 1799 Academy edition). General Research
Division, The New York Public Library.
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