Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]

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Title: Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic]
Creator: Perry, John, active 1791-1812, printmaker
Contributor: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797, artist.
Published / Created: [1 December 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: J. Johnson
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.
Offset from letterpress text on verso.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; April 2014.
Extent: 1 print : image 18.2 x 14 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1792
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Suriname.
Guiana.
Subject (Topic): Slavery
Indians of South America
Enslaved persons
Subjects: Suriname
Slavery > Suriname
Indians of South America > Guiana
Enslaved persons > Guiana
England > London > 1792

Access: Public
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