Details
Title Negresse battant le coton au lieu de le carder [graphic].
Title African woman beating cotton in lieu of a machine
Publisher [Paris: s.n]
Date [1814]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; overall 13 x 8 cm. (5.25 x 3 in)
Description Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African woman beating cotton into threads. The cotton, which had already been ginned, was placed on a stiff mat and hit with a baton.
Is part of Villeneuve, René Geoffroy de (R.G.V.), 1767-1831. L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains. Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814.
Notes Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 181.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Cotton industry -- Senegal.
Cotton plantation workers -- Senegal.
Blacks -- Senegal.
Geographic subject Africa, West -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1810-1820.
Book illustrations -- 1810-1820.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 181
Accession number 65954.D