The skinning of the Aboma snake, shot by Cap. Stedman [graphic]

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Title: The skinning of the Aboma snake, shot by Cap. Stedman [graphic]
Creator: Blake, William, 1757-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797, artist.
Published / Created: [2 December 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Decr. 2d, 1793 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Abstract: An Arawak native slits the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. Captain Stedman, his back to the viewer, directs the work of the natives from the ground (left foreground), his rifle resting against the trunk of the tree. On the right in the distance, a man sits in a boat on the river
Description: Title from caption below image.
The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early 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.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; April 2014.
Extent: 1 print : image 183 x 131 mm, on sheet 253 x 206 mm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations England 1793
Engravings England London 1793
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Suriname.
Guiana.
Subject (Name): Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797,
Subject (Topic): Slavery
Indians of South America
Hunting
Snakes
Subjects: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Suriname
Slavery > Suriname
Indians of South America > Guiana
Hunting
Snakes
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

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