The capture of slaves by an African slaver in Africa. Watercolour, 18--.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
Reference:
575267i
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The capture of slaves by an African slaver in Africa. Watercolour, 18--. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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An African slaver attacks a village, setting fire to the houses, and trying to seize the son of a woman who tries to stop him. It was painted by a Christian traveller, perhaps a missionary, who had apparently travelled in many parts of the world including Africa and North America, and went round giving lectures on what he had seen and experienced. The paintings are on large sheets of paper and served to illustrate his lectures. This painting vividly illustrates the horror of the slave-hunt, and identifies it as, in the painter's lifetime, a feature of African rather than European society

Publication/Creation

[between 1800 and 1899]

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet approximately 108 x 72 cm

Notes

One of a number of watercolours in the Wellcome Library by a painter given the provisional name "The Empire Traveller"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 575267i

Creator/production credits

The same composition appears in a lithograph published as pl. III in Illustrations of missionary scenes, an offering to youth, Mainz; Joseph Scholz. Various catalogues attribute the work to Joseph Josenhans (1812-1884) and date it to the 1850s

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