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Contributor Lehman & Duval, lithographers.
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, former owner.
Title Pennsylvania Colonization Society [graphic] : A view of Bassa Cove in Liberia.
Publisher Philadelphia : Lehman & Duval, Lithrs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1837
Date [ca. 1837]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 44 x 36 cm (17 x 14 in.)
Description Honorary life membership certificate containing a view of Liberia, the African American colony established by the American Colonization Society in 1822. 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. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society, established in 1826, was a state chapter of the controversial American Colonization Society established in 1816 to promote Black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality and to end slavery.
Notes Title from item.
Issued to [Tho]mas Sully, Esquire of Philadelphia on October 24, 1848 for his donation of "valuable original portraits." Signed by [Robert B.] Davidson, rec. secretary; Elliot Cresson, corresponding secretary; J.R. Ingersoll, president.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Gift of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 1989.
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 the 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 -- Pennsylvania.
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.
Membership certificates -- 1830-1840.
Provenance Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Philadelphia Certificates [P.9261]
Accession number P.9261