644 777 C337
Acquired April 2014
The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
791.12.01.03
Acquired April 2014
List of Hogarth’s prints and prices
75 H67 S781g
Acquired April 2014
Three West Indian washer women sit or stand in or near a stream. The one on land balances a basket of clean wash on her head and a baby strapped to her back.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
770.00.00.190
Acquired April 2014
646 775 C855
Acquired April 2014
A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
779.02.15.01
Acquired April 2014
A young quadroon (person of one quarter black ancestry) shown full-length standing on a shore beside a blooming bush, holding her hat on with her right hand and a handkerchief in her left. Two women are shown in the distance on the left. The one (a slave) holds a large umbrella over her mistress walking ahead of her.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
792.12.01.02
Acquired April 2014
A black rebel holds a musket in his right hand as he turns to his left looking up apprehensively. Around his waist is a bandolier with a pouch and a hatchet. At his feet is the skull of a human head. Behind him on the right in the distance are two blacks running in the brush, also armed with rifles.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
794.12.01.08
Acquired April 2014
An Arawak native slits the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. Captain Stedman, his back to the viewer, directs the work of the natives from the ground (left foreground), his rifle resting against the trunk of the tree. On the right in the distance, a man sits in a boat on the river.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
793.12.02.01
Acquired April 2014
A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her rigth foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance another Arawak is shown ready to shoot his his arrow.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
792.12.01.03
Acquired April 2014