Recife, Brazil: a street with men in high hats and uniform pointing out with long sticks the slaves they wish to purchase. Aquatint by Edward Finden after Augustus Earle.

  • Earle, Augustus.
Date:
5 April 1824
Reference:
37940i
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London : Longman & Co : J. Murray, 5 April 1824.

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1 print : aquatint, with etching ; image 15 x 22.1 cm

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Gate & slave market at Pernambuco. Drawn by Augs. Earle. Engraved by Edwd. Finden.

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Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, no. 708.3

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Wellcome Collection 37940i

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