Accession number
PML 199025
Creator
La citoyenne Rollet, engraver.
Published
Paris : [s.n., ca. 1794]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2023.
Notes
Text printed on either side of title: "Quel contrat infame. L'un marchande / Ce qui n'appartient a personne / L'autre vend la proprieté / De la nature. Ce vil métier a été aboli par la Convention Nationale le 16 Pluviose l'An deuxieme de la République française une et indivisible. ["What an infamous contract. One bargains for a person who belongs to no one, the other sells what belongs to nature. This vile trade was abolished by the National Convention on the 16th Pluviose of the 2nd year of a united and indivisible French Republic."].
Printed under text: "a Paris chez Depeuille, Rue St. Denis Section Bon-Conseil."
Printed under text: "a Paris chez Depeuille, Rue St. Denis Section Bon-Conseil."
Description
1 print on wove paper : stipple and line engraving, b&w ; plate 43 x 51 cm., sheet 44 x 61 cm.
Summary
An engraved print showing the capture of Africans by European slave traders along the African coast.
Binding
Not bound, in folder.
Classification
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