Surinam: white men with rifles are holding them high as they make their way through a swamp after a black man. Engraving after J.G. Stedman.

  • Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797.
Date:
Decr. 1st. 1794
Reference:
33030i
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"Colonel Fourgeoud (preceded by a negro slave as a guide to give notice by his swimming when the water deepens) followed by myself, some other officers and marine, wading through the marsh ..."--Stedman, op. cit., vol. II, p. 104

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London (St. Paul's Church Yard) : J. Johnson, Decr. 1st. 1794.

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1 print : engraving ; image 18.3 x 13.3 cm

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March thro' a swamp or marsh in Terra Firma.

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, no. 719.?

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Wellcome Collection 33030i

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