COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
32749
Record number:
32749-1
JCB call number:
F789 F938c
Image title:
Soyez Libres et Citoyens.
Creator 1:
Pierre Rouvier
Creator 1 role:
inv. et del.
Creator 2:
Charles Boily
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[Lyon]
Image publisher:
[Aimé de La Roche]
Image date:
[1789]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.5 cm
Page dimension width:
13 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Slaves wearing shackles or manacles kneel before a woman wearing a crown and cloak with fleurs de lis representing the French monarchy. Includes black men, women, and children and chains.
Source creator:
Frossard, Benjamin-Sigismond, 1754-1830
Source Title:
La cause des esclaves nègres et des habitans de la Guinée ... Tome premier
Source place of publication:
A Lyon
Source publisher:
De l'imprimerie d'Aimé de La Roche, imprimeur de la Société royale d'agriculture
Source date:
M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
notes:
Frossard was a Protestant pastor in Lyon from 1777 until 1809 when he founded the Protestant faculty of theology at Montauban.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1960.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Emblems
Subject headings:
Slavery -- France -- Colonies
Soyez Libres et Citoyens.
