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1. Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]
- Creator:
- Perry, John, active 1791-1812, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 December 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.12.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young quadroon (person of one quarter black ancestry) shown full-length standing on a shore beside a blooming bush, holding her hat on with her right hand and a handkerchief in her left. Two women are shown in the distance on the left. The one (an enslaved woman) holds a large umbrella over her mistress walking ahead of her
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Imprint from other illustrations in this publication., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., Plate from: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813., and Offset from letterpress text on verso.
- Publisher:
- J. Johnson
- Subject (Geographic):
- Suriname. and Guiana.
- Subject (Topic):
- Slavery, Indians of South America, and Enslaved persons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]
