Details
Contributor McDowall, Robert, artist.
Lehman & Duval Lithrs., lithographer.
Title A view of Bassa Cove (in Liberia.) [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Lehman & Duval Lithrs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1837
Date [ca. 1836]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 24 x 30 cm (9.5 x 12 in.)
Description View "from a drawing made on the spot by Dr. Robert McDowall" of a village scene in Liberia, the African American colony established by the American Colonization Society in 1822. Also used as the illustration of a membership certificate of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society. In the left foreground, three bare-chested Black people, attired in white sarongs, stand at the West African cove across from the small village. The village is comprised of buildings and is surrounded by a fence. People and cattle stroll the grounds. Established in 1816, the controversial American Colonization Society promoted Black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality, and to dissolve the institution of slavery. Copies of the print were on view for sale at the colonization society office for over a decade. McDowall was a Black physician sent by the society to provide medical care at the colony.
Notes Title from item.
Advertised in Colonization herald, June 17, 1837, vol. III, no. 54, p. 214 and later issues.
Purchase 1970.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Lehman & Duval was a Philadelphia partnership between painter, lithographer, and engraver George Lehman, and lithographer, Peter S. Duval, that lasted from 1835 until 1837.
Subject Pennsylvania Colonization Society.
African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Bays (Bodies of water) -- Liberia.
Black people -- Liberia.
Cattle -- Liberia.
Men, Black -- Liberia.
Villages -- Liberia.
Black men -- Liberia.
Geographic subject Liberia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC-Views-Foreign-Africa [7930.F]
Accession number 7930.F