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Plan of a regular coffee plantation

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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.

  • Printmaker: Conder, Thomas, 1746 or 1747-1831, printmaker.
  • Title: Plan of a regular coffee plantation [graphic] / T. Conder sculpsit.
  • Published: London : Published Decr. 1st, 1791 by J. Johnson. St. Paul’s Church Yard, [1 December 1791]

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791.12.01.03

Acquired April 2014

Female quadroon slave of Surinam

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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.

  • Printmaker: Perry, John, active 1791-1812, printmaker.
  • Title: Female quadroon slave of Surinam [graphic] / Perry sculp.
  • Published: [London : J. Johnson, 1 December 1792]

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792.12.01.02

Acquired April 2014

A rebel negro armed & on his guard

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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.

  • Printmaker: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker.
  • Title: A rebel negro armed & on his guard [graphic] / Bartolozzi sculpt.
  • Published: London : Published Decr. 1st 1794 by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard, [1 December 1794]

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794.12.01.08

Acquired April 2014

The skinning of the Aboma snake, shot by Cap. Stedman

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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.

  • Printmaker: Blake, William, 1757-1827, printmaker.
  • Title: The skinning of the Aboma snake, shot by Cap. Stedman [graphic] / Blake sculpt.
  • Published: [London : Published Decr. 2d, 1793 by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard, 2 December 1793]

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793.12.02.01

Acquired April 2014

Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation

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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.

  • Printmaker: Benedetti, Michele, 1745-1810, printmaker.
  • Title: Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic] / Benedetti sculp.
  • Published: London : Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard, [1 December 1792]

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792.12.01.03

Acquired April 2014