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A black woman slave in Surinam holding a weight on her head which is attached by a chain to her ankle Wall Art
ART BY: John Gabriel Stedman
A black woman slave in Surinam holding a weight on her head which is attached by a chain to her ankle Wall Art
ART BY: John Gabriel Stedman
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About this artwork
A black woman slave in Surinam holding a weight on her head which is attached by a chain to her ankle is an engravings by John Gabriel Stedman (1744–1797), dated Decr. 1st 1795. The artist is catalogued as Dutch. The original is held by the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 3842 × 6000 px (5.6 MB). You will find it among Prints, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 5 works by John Gabriel Stedman, a Dutch artist.
John Gabriel Stedman was a Dutch-British army officer and writer best known for writing The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). This narrative covers his experience in Suriname between 1773 and 1777, where he was a soldier in a Dutch regiment deployed to assist colonial troops fighting against groups of maroons.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by John Gabriel Stedman →
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