Details
Creator Barlow, J. engraver.
Contributor Rainsford, Marcus, fl. 1805 artist.
Title Blood hounds attacking a black family in the woods [graphic] / M. Rainsford del. ; J. Barlow sculpt.
Publisher [London: s.n]
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1805
Date [1805]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; overall 26 x 20 cm. (10.25 x 7.75 in)
Description Engraving is after a drawing by Rainsford, the former Captain of Britain's Third West-India Regiment. The setting is St. Domingo (Haiti) in 1803. As Rainsford explains in his text, as the French occupiers lost power and control, they reverted to increasingly barbarous measures, and unleashed vicious blood hounds on black residents.
Is part of Rainsford, Marcus, fl. 1805. Historical account of the black empire of Hayti. London: Albion press printed: published by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, and sold by C. Chapple, Pall Mall, 1805.
Notes Plate in Marcus Rainsford's Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: comprehending a view of the principal transactions in the revolution of Saint Domingo; with its antient and modern state (London: Albion press printed: published by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row; and sold by C. Chapple, Pall Mall, 1805), p. 338.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
Subject Blacks -- Capture & imprisonment -- Haiti.
Hunting dogs -- Haiti.
Geographic subject Haiti -- History -- 1804-1844 -- Pictorial works.
Genre Engravings -- 1800-1810.
Book illustrations -- 1800-1810.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1805 Rains 1416.Q p 338
Accession number 1416.Q