Family of Negro Slaves from Loango

1793

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman

Associated Names
William Blake

Artist, British, 1757 - 1827

John Gabriel Stedman

Artist After, British, 1744 - 1797

This print shows two adults and two children, all with dark skin and short, curly hair. On the left is a man standing upright with a basket of fish on his head, holding a large fish. He is mostly nude except for a thin cloth around his waist. Next to him is a woman who also has a basket on her head filled with fruits and vegetables. She is smoking a pipe and holding a stick that appears to have some wool-like fibers on it. One child is hanging from a sling on her back, and another child is standing at her side. The woman has a longer cloth wrapped around her waist, but her torso is bare. In the background, there are hills, a small structure, and two small people in the distance on the left. The print is surrounded by a border of blank paper, and there is a line of text at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on wove paper mounted on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24.2 × 17.5 cm (9 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)
    mount: 28.3 × 20.7 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1836

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Keynes 1921, no. 111, State (xiii)

  • Series Title

    Stedman's "Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition"

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1921

  • Keynes, Geoffrey. A bibliography of William Blake. New York: Grolier Club, 1921.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image, at right: Blake Sculpt.; in plate, below image, at center: Family of Negro Slaves from Loango; on mount, in graphite, at lower left: K. III xiii; on mount, in graphite, at lower right: 3-4320 37-1432; verso: none

Wikidata ID

Q64962823

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