Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Transport d'une voiture démontée. [bottom] Convoi de café. Marchandes de café brulé.

Accession number: 
07385
Record number: 
07385-12
JCB call number: 
E834 D288v / 3-SIZE
Image title: 
[top] Transport d'une voiture démontée. [bottom] Convoi de café. Marchandes de café brulé.
Creator 1: 
Jean Baptiste Debret
Creator 1 dates: 
1768-1848
Creator 1 role: 
delt.
Creator 2: 
Thierry Frères, succrs. de Engelmann & Cie.
Creator 2 role: 
lith. de
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[Firmin Didot Frères]
Image date: 
[1835]
Image function: 
plate 37; vol. 2, following p. 114
Technique: 
lithograph
Image dimension height: 
26.5 cm.
Image dimension width: 
23.6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
54 cm.
Page dimension width: 
34 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
French
Description: 
[top] Black men [slaves] unload a carriage by carrying the parts on their heads. Includes quayside of harbor, dwellings, and boat. [bottom] Men carry coffee in bags on their heads to women who roast, grind, and sell the coffee. The line of men is led by a man who carries a branch with a lizard [?].
Source creator: 
Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848
Source Title: 
Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil ... Tome deuxième
Source place of publication: 
Paris
Source publisher: 
Firmin Didot Frères, imprimeurs de l'Institut de France
Source date: 
M DCCC XXXV [1835]
notes: 
Text describes how parts of a carriage are transported by porters in Rio de Janeiro by separating the parts. Each part is wrapped in wicker for transport. The coffee convoy shown at the bottom is led by a headman who carries a talisman against bad luck.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Brazil
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Slavery--Brazil