Details
Creator Boily, Charles-Ange, 1738 or 9-1813 engraver.
Contributor Rouvier, Pierre, b. 1742.
Title Soyez libres et citoyens [graphic] / Rouvier, P. del ; Boily, C. sc.
Publisher [Lyon: s.n]
Publisher FRANCE. Lyon. 1789
Date [1789]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; overall 20 x 12 cm. (7.75 x 4.75 in)
Description Allegorical figure representing liberty blesses and grasps the hand of a male slave who kneels before her. One of the slave's shackles lies broken on the ground, the other remains on his leg. Behind him, a group of enchained slaves look on as they wait to approach the figure of Liberty.
Is part of Frossard, Benjamin-Sigismond, 1754-1830. Cause des esclaves nègres et des habitans de la Guinée. A Lyon: imprimeur de la Société royale d'agriculture, 1789.
Notes Frontispiece for Benjamin-Sigismond Frossard's La Cause des esclaves nègres et des habitans de la Guinée (A Lyon: De l'imprimerie d'Aimé de La Roche, imprimeur de la Société royale d'agriculture, 1789).
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slaves -- Emancipation -- France -- Colonies.
Liberty.
Genre Engravings -- 1780-1790.
Book illustrations -- 1780-1790.
Allegorical prints -- 1780-1790.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1789 Fross 1971.O frontispiece
Accession number 1971.O