04812ckm a2200853 a 4500 000141265 20231108103429.0 kj bo 010301s1841 paunnn kneng d (CPomAG)AFR-631 3 10 ppl PPL dcrmg Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver. 15731 Cinque [graphic] : The chief of the Amistad captives / Engraved by J. Sartain. [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1841] 1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 27.5 x 21 cm (10.75 x 8.25 in.) Title from printed signature of sitter below image. Date inferred from content. Printed on recto: fac simile of the original autograph. Bust portrait of the enslaved leader after a painting by New Haven, Connecticut artist, Nathaniel Jocelyn, engraved by Philadelphia artist and Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society member, John Sartain, to raise funds for the enslaved ship mutineers' defense before the Supreme Court. Sartain reproduced the painting, commissioned in 1841 by Philadelphia African American abolitionist and Amistad Committee defense fund member, Robert Purvis, following the refusal of the Artist Fund Society to display the original at the society's 1841 exhibit. Depicts the West African, attired in a toga, walking cane in hand, slightly facing left, in front of a background of African landscape. Original painting in the collections of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT. LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro history, p. 34. LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America, #61. See Ann Katherine Martinez's The Life and career of John Sartain (1808-1897): A nineteenth century Philadelphia printmaker (Ph.D dissertation, The George Washington University, 1986), p. 75-78. See Hugh Honour's The Image of the Black in western Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), part 2, vol. IV, p. 159-161. See Katherine Martinez's and Page Talbott's, eds. The Sartain family legacy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), p. 66-67. Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings. McAllister collection, gift, 1886. 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. Cinque Portraits. Amistad (Schooner) 3353 Fugitive slaves United States. lctgm 72624 Slave insurrections Caribbean Sea. Men, Black Africa, West. Engravings 1840-1850. gmgpc Mezzotints 1840-1850. gmgpc Portrait prints 1840-1850. gmgpc Black men Africa, West. local Enslaved men United States. local. Freedom seekers United States. local Rebellions. local SP3 African American History SP10 Philadelphia artists. Jocelyn, Nathaniel, 1796-1881, artist. 25508 Illustrator Jocelyn, Nathaniel, 1796-1881, artist. Printer Purvis, Robert, 1810-1891, sponsor, Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1841. Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT Portrait prints-C [5306.F.35] 5306.F.35 5306-f-35 2001/03/01 ep 2001/08/06 ja Pr Portrait Prints-C [5306.F.35] Pr 5306.F.35 LCPD Portrait Prints-C [5306.F.35] (CPomAG)00146212 134287 134287 000141265 CONV 00 20051208 1945 000141265 BATCH-UPD 00 20051211 0439 000141265 20060120 1808 000141265 20060201 1534 000141265 MASTER 40 20070410 1417 000141265 20071018 1952 000141265 NICOLEJ 40 20140220 1310 000141265 ERIKA 40 20190408 1016 000141265 LINDA 40 20210923 1129 000141265 LINDA 40 20210923 1213 ppl PA. Philadelphia. 1841. Imprint Jocelyn, Nathaniel, 1796-1881, artist. Purvis, Robert, 1810-1891, sponsor, McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.