Details
Creator Putter, K. De, engraver.
Title Maisons des Negres du Cap Mezurado [graphic] / K. De Putter.
Title Houses of Africans at Cape Mezurado
Publisher [Amsterdam: s.n.,]
Publisher NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam. 1731
Date 1731
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 20 x 14 cm. (8 x 5.5 in)
Description Accompanying chapter sixteen, "Du Cap Mesurado. Sa Description," the engraving shows a small African settlement at Cape Mesurade (in modern Liberia). The buildings include a kitchen (left), a residence, and a small hut fashioned out of red clay. A public square and a meeting-place occupy the space immediately outside the settlement's walls.
Is part of Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738. Voyage du chevalier des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et a Cayenne. Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compagnie, M.DCC.XXXI [1731].
Notes Fold-out plate in Jean Baptiste Labat's Voyage du chevalier Des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et a Cayenne, Fait en 1725, 1726, & 1727 (A Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compaigne, M.DCC.XXXI [1731], vol. 1, p. 104.
Key underneath the engraving reads as follows: A. Cazes des Negres du Cap de Mezurade reuetues de terre Rouge. B. Cuisine. C. Caze a mil et Rise maçonée de terre Rouge. D. Caldé ou les Negres s'assemblent pour leur Negoce et Causer pendant le jour. E. Cour. F. Place publique.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Dwellings -- Liberia.
Villages -- Liberia.
Geographic subject Liberia -- Pictorial works -- 18th century.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1730-1740.
Book illustrations -- 1730-1740.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1731 Lab 1691.D v 1 p 104
Accession number 1691.D