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Title Supplice d'un homme et d'une femme adulteres a Juda [graphic].
Title Punishment of an adulterous man and women in Juda
Publisher [Amsterdam: s.n]
Publisher NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam. 1731
Date [1731]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 21 x 14 cm. (8.25 x 5.5 in)
Description A woman accused of adultery is burned at the stake in front of a large crowd in Juda (French Guiana). A man accused of the same sits in a pit next to her and watches as her body is consumed by flames and smoke. (Presumably, he is about to receive the same punishment.) Drummers, men with rifles, and women carrying pots number among the hundreds of onookers. The women's pots may contain some type of accelerant, for one of the women pours liquid onto the head of the adulterous man.
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. 2, p. 66.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Adultery.
Capital punishment -- French Guiana.
Geographic subject French Guiana -- 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 2 p 66
Accession number 1691.D