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Description: | Length of plain-weave cotton engraved-roller-printed in purple; selvedge on both sides.
Scenes illustrating Europeans in Africa and the slave trade:
1. Group of black people sitting under 2 palm trees watching while others welcome boatload of Europeans with barrels, boxes, landing from their ship in bay
2. Shipwreck: Europeans rescued by black people; family group with small boy with arms around neck of swooning mother.
3. Black man between white gentleman with raised stick and white sailor below the legend 'TRAITE DES //NEGRES'; in boat to left, another 'gent' and a back man covering his face with his hands.
Signature on 3: ' E.Feldtruppe '. | Source: | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.appliedart.130503 | Go to resource |
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