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A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet Wall Art
ART BY: Harden Sidney Melville
A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet Wall Art
ART BY: Harden Sidney Melville
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About this artwork
A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet is a wood engravings by Harden Sidney Melville (1824–1894). The artist is catalogued as English. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 5271 × 6000 px (7.5 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Romanticism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 11 works by Harden Sidney Melville, a British artist.
Harden Sidney Melville (1824–1894) was an English painter, illustrator and draughtsman. He received a medal from the Society of Arts and had three paintings hung in the Royal Academy’s show between 1837 and 1841.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Harden Sidney Melville →
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A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
