Details
Creator Chamouin, Jean Baptiste Marie, b. 1768 engraver.
Contributor Bullica, R.
Title Case a Negres [graphic] / Bullica del. ; Chamoun sculp.
Title Negro house
Publisher [Paris: s.n]
Publisher FRANCE. Paris. 1835
Date [1835]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4.25 in.)
Description Tropical landscape in which a black family is featured in the foreground. The father wears a straw hat, and carries some type of tool or bundle over his shoulder. The mother sits with their child on her lap in a posture that suggests breast-feeding. Behind a stone and wooden fence, the thatched roofs of two small houses are visible.
Is part of Hugo, Abel, 1798-1855. France pittoresque ou Description pittoresque, topographique et statistique des départements et colonies de la France. Paris: Chez Delloye, éditeur de la France militaire, place de la Bourse, rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas, 13, 1835.
Notes Illustration in Abel Hugo's France pittoresque ou Description pittoresque, topographique et statistique des départements et colonies de la France (A Paris: Chez Delloye, éditeur de la France militaire, place de la Bourse, rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas, 13, 1835), vol. 3, p. 274.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject Blacks -- Domestic life -- East Indies.
Slave quarters -- East Indies.
Geographic subject East Indies -- Pictorial works.
Genre Engravings -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1835 Hugo 10039.Q v 3 p 274
Accession number 10039.Q