Details
Creator Breton, William L., approximately 1773-1855, artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, lithographer.
Title Mount Vaughan [graphic] : Scite of Protest[an]t. Episcopal Mission, Cape Palmos, West Africa / W.L. Breton; P.S. Duval, Lith.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval, Lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date 1838
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; 27 x 45 cm (10.75 x 17.75 in.)
Description View of the lush grounds of the mission begun in the Black emigrant colony of Liberia in 1835 to educate and spread the gospel in Africa. Depicts the "mission houses," "school house," houses of a "native laborer" and "a colonist," and "native cattle broken to the yoke." A Black man guides a cattle-drawn cart on the dirt road outside of the fenced mission fields where Black laborers work. Begun under the auspices of the American Colonization Society and the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the mission moved on March 4, 1837 to Mt. Vaughan, named in honor of the Missionary Society's Secretary of the Board, Rev. John Vaughan. Contains key to figures below the image.
Notes Title from item.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1969, p. 56.
Purchase 1969.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Breton was a 19th-century Philadelphia painter, delineator, and early lithographer who specialized in views.
Subject Episcopal Church -- Missions.
African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia.
Agricultural laborers -- Liberia -- Cape Palmas.
Black people -- Liberia -- Cape Palmas
Carts & wagons -- Liberia.
Cattle -- Liberia.
Men, Black -- Liberia.
Missions -- Liberia -- Palmas, Cape.
Black men -- Liberia.
Geographic subject Liberia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, lithographer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Views - Foreign - Africa [7821.F]
Accession number 7821.F