Details
Creator Clark, J., 1789-1830, engraver.
Contributor Hutton, William, 1797-1860 artist.
Title A mulatto woman of the Gold Coast [graphic] / W. Hutton del. ; J. Clark sculpt.
Publisher London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1821
Date 1821
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored aquatint; overall 22 x 14 cm. (8.5 x 5.5 in)
Description Portrait of a mulatto woman walking with a parasol on the coast. Hutton's general description of "superior black women and mulattoes" on the Gold Coast also applies to this subject. As he wrote, "They wear a cloth either of silk or cotton, which they fasten round their waist with a handkerchief, from which is suspended a large bunch of silver keys, about thirty-two in number. Under their cloth they wear a girdle that goest several times round their loins, and forms into a large pad behind, just at the small of their backs, which is called a cankey, and on which they carry their children. This cankey, which has a very unseemly appearance, possesses the advantage of keeping the cloth loose, and thus prevents their shape from being exposed. The young girls in general are proud of showing their bosoms, but the mulatto women conceal theirs by wearing a linen shirt." (p. 93-94)
Is part of Hutton, William, 1797-1860. Voyage to Africa. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1821.
Notes Plate in William Hutton's A Voyage to Africa: Including a Narrative of an Embassy to One of the Interior Kingdoms, in the year 1820 . . . (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1821), p. 92.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Racially mixed people -- Clothing & dress -- Gold Coast.
Miscegenation -- Ghana.
Genre Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri Hutton 5536.O p 92
Accession number 5536.O