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[African weaver] [graphic].
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Title
[African weaver] [graphic].
Publisher
[London: s.n]
Publisher
ENGLAND. London. 1822
Date
[1822]
Physical Description
1 print: aquatint; overall 13 x 21 cm. (5 x 8 in)
Description
Report includes William Singleton's "Account of a Visit to the Gambia and Sierra Leone," in which he described the weaver featured in the frontispiece. Recalling his arrival in Tankrowall (Gambia), Singleton wrote, "The African loom here took my attention; and here too I first saw a female use the distaff: she was spinning cotton, and frequently dipped her finger into a white powder, prepared from burnt bones." (p. 30) As the frontispiece attests, the weaver's loom was sheltered, and she sat on the ground as she worked. A similar loom is depicted in René Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sénégal (Paris: 1814), vol. 4, p. 180.
Is part of
London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) Report of the committee managing a fund raised by some friends for the purpose of promoting African instruction. London: Printed by Harvey, Darton, and Co., 55, Gracechurch-Street, 1822.
Notes
Frontispiece for the London Yearly Meeting's Report of the Committee Managing a Fund Raised by Some Friends for the Purpose of Promoting African Instruction . . . (London: Printed by Harvey, Darton, and Co., 55, Gracechurch-Street, 1822).
Caption below the image read: "The plate presented to the work by some friends to the cause."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject
Weaving -- Gambia.
Looms -- Gambia.
Geographic subject
Africa, West -- Pictorial works.
Genre
Aquatints -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Frontispieces -- 1820-1830.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri Lond Yea Meet 5593.O frontispiece
Accession number
5593.O
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Fels African Americana Image Project
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