COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06944
Record number:
06944-76
JCB call number:
D796 S812n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Europe supported by Africa & America.
Creator 1:
William Blake
Creator 1 dates:
1757-1827
Creator 1 role:
sculpt.
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Image date:
Decr. 1st. 1792
Image function:
plate 80; vol. 2, following p. 394
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
18 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
29 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Three women representing Europe, Africa, and America stand in an embrace. Africa and America have gilded armbands, Europe wears blue beads.
Source creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Source Title:
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam ... Vol. II.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall
Source date:
1796
Time Period:
1751-1800
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
References:
Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, Fig. 38.; Price, R. & S., ed. Stedman Narrative, p. xxxix
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Emblems
Europe supported by Africa & America.
