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Fabrica del Tabacco [graphic] / Ant Gregori scul. F.
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Creator
Gregori, Ant, engraver.
Title
Fabrica del Tabacco [graphic] / Ant Gregori scul. F.
Title
Tobacco factory
Publisher
[Livorno: s.n]
Publisher
ITALY. Livorno. 1763
Date
[1763]
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 24 x 18 cm. (9.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Shows four slaves at work in a tobacco house. In the lower left-hand corner, a female slave sits on the ground and strips (?) the tobacco leaves (1). Behind her, another slave twists tobacco (2), while a third slave (3) puts it on a roll. Drying tobacco leaves hang upside down from the rafters (4). In the background, a mother and child work hanging leaves. A version of this engraving (a closely related mirror image) appears in Jean Baptiste Laban's Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique (A Paris: rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre-François Giffart, près la rue Mathurins, à l'image Sainte Therese, M.DCC.XXII [1722]), vol. 4, p. 496.
Is part of
Il gazzettiere americano In Livorno: Per Marco Coltellini all' insegna della verita, [1763].
Notes
Plate 21 in Il gazzettiere americano (In Livorno: Per Marco Coltellini all' inglese della verita, [1763]), vol 3, p. 202.
Key at the top reads: 1. Nero che leva le Costole al Tabacco; 2. Nero che torce il Tabacco; 3. Nero che arrotola il Tabacco ; 4. Tabacco sospese per aseiugarsi.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject
Tobacco industry.
Slave labor.
Genre
Engravings -- 1760-1770.
Book illustrations -- 1760-1770.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *Am 1763 Ameri Gaz Log 2080.F v 3 p 202.
Accession number
2080.F
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