Details
Contributor Warnicke, John G., d. 1818 engraver.
Title View of Negroes washing for diamonds at Mandango on the River Jigitonhonha in Cerro do Frio, Brazil. [graphic].
Publisher [London: s.n]
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1812
Date [1812]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 21 x 17 cm. (8.25 x 6.5 in)
Description According to Mawe, Mandango was the "greatest of the diamond works," and employed "about a thousand negroes." (p. 219) Here, under the supervision of four overseers, numerous slaves work one next to another in a long line. Each slave is bent deep over his individual trough, and rakes through sediment in search of diamonds. As Mawe explained,"there is no particular regulation respecting the dress of the negroes: they work in the clothes most suitable to the nature of their employment, generally in a waistcoast and a pair of drawers, . . . . While washing they change their posture as often as they please, which is very necessary, as the work requires them to place their feet on the edges of the trough, and to stoop considerably." (p. 225)
Is part of Mawe, John, 1764-1829, Travel in the interior of Brazil. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1812.
Notes Frontispiece for John Mawe's Travels in the Interior of Brazil (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1812).
Engraving is probably the work of J.G. Warnicke who completed another large plate showing a mining scene set in the bed of the River Jigitonhonha (p. 220).
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject Slave labor -- Brazil.
Diamond mines and mining -- Brazil.
Geographic subject Brazil -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Genre Engravings -- 1810-1820.
Book illustrations -- 1810-1820.
Frontispieces -- 1810-1820.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1812 Mawe 1555.Q frontispiece
Accession number 1555.Q