'The Female Hottentot with natural Apron' A Khoisan woman with elongated labia that so fascinated Europeans. She wears a hat; animal skin; necklace; and bracelets; and carries a bow and arrows.Hand-colored copperplate engraving from a drawing by Johann Ihle from Ebenezer Sibly's 鈥楿niversal System of Natural History' 1794. The prolific Sibly published his Universal System of Natural History in 1794~1796 in five volumes covering the three natural worlds of fauna; flora and geology. The series included illustrations of mythical beasts such as the sukotyro and the mermaid; and depicted sloths sitting on the ground (instead of hanging from trees) and a domesticated female orang utan wearing a bandana. The engravings were by J. Pass; J. Chapman and Barlow copied from original drawings by famous natural history artists George Edwards; Albertus Seba; Maria Sybilla Merian; and Johann Ihle. These volumes are extremely hard to find even with uncoloured plates; and very rare coloured. The hand-colouring on these copperplate engravings is particularly rich and intense.