Cinque
The chief of the Amistad captives
Sartain, John
1808-1897
engraver
Jocelyn, Nathaniel
1796-1881
artist
Jocelyn, Nathaniel
1796-1881
artist
Purvis, Robert
1810-1891
sponsor
McAllister, John A. (John Allister)
1822-1896
collector
still image
Graphic
Engravings -- 1840-1850
Mezzotints -- 1840-1850
Portrait prints -- 1840-1850
pau
Philadelphia]
PA. Philadelphia
[publisher not identified]
[ca. 1841]
1841
monographic
eng
1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 27.5 x 21 cm (10.75 x 8.25 in.)
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.
Engraved by J. Sartain.
Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Date inferred from content.
Printed on recto: fac simile of the original autograph.
Cinque
Portraits
Amistad (Schooner)
Fugitive slaves
United States
Slave insurrections
Caribbean Sea
Men, Black
Africa, West
5306.F.35
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
Portrait prints-C [5306.F.35]
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