Details
Contributor Bowdich, T. Edward (Thomas Edward), 1791-1824 artist.
Title Part of Adoom street [No. 9] [graphic] / Drawn by T.E. Bowdich Esq.
Publisher London: Published by John Murray, Abermarle Street
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1819
Date Dec. 2, 1818
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored aquatint; image 17 x 36 cm (6.75 x 14.5 in)
Description As the title suggests, the plate shows part of Adoom-street in Gaman (now part of Ghana). In the accompanying text, Bowdich wrote, "No. 9, is a view of part of Adoom-street: each open front denotes the residence of a captain, being used for talking palavers, receiving strangers, observing or superintending customs, and evening recreation The dwelling is entered by the small door at the side, which generally leads through a narrow passage or court to a large area like No. 6, and thence by various intricate ways to smaller and more retired areas like No 4. and No. 5. A fetish woman has just quitted the centre house; she has on a white cloth, and various pieces of rich silk are hanging round her girdle, her breasts are confined with a scarf, a fillet encircles her head, in each hand she waves a horse's tail, and she continues yelling and swinging round and round until she is quite stupified. A weaver and loom are on her right, and a market woman under her shed on the left."
Is part of Bowdich, T.E., 1791-1824. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee. London: J. Murray, Albemarle-Street: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1819.
Notes Fold-out plate in T. Edward Bowdich's Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee: with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa (London: J. Murray, Albemarle-Street: printed by W. Pulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1819), p. 308.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Ashanti (African people) -- Structure.
Dwellings -- Ashanti.
Ashanti (African people) -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Genre Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1810-1820.
Book illustrations -- 1810-1820.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *U Afri Bowd 12983.Q p 308
Accession number 12983.Q