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Description: | This engraving was made by the poet and artist William Blake at his studio in Hercules Buildings in Lambeth. It was one of a series he engraved to illustrate the Negro Rebelloin in Surinam written by his friend John Gabriel Stedman. Blake's illustrations shows these African as the exotic and enslaved inhabitants of a distant Dutch colony. Stedman owned the family; the initial J. G. S are tattooed on the man's breast. But it is clear that Blake would have been familiar with black people living in Lambeth at the
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Reproduced with permission of the President and Fellows of Magdalen College Oxford.
Copyright Magdalen College Oxford. | License: | http://www.lambethlandmark.com/terms.html | Subjects: | Black Women Cooking and Preparation Children | Temporal: | 1066-01-01T00:00:00/1849-12-31T23:59:00 | Source: | Lambeth Landmark | Creator: | Lambeth Libraries | Identifier: | http://landmark.lambeth.gov.uk/display_p... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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