COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
07385
Record number:
07385-7
JCB call number:
E834 D288v / 3-SIZE
Image title:
[top] Marchand de tabac. [bottom left] L'aveugle chanteur. [bottom right] Marchande de pandelos.
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 41; vol. 2, following p. 126
Technique:
lithograph
Image dimension height:
28.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
23.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
54 cm.
Page dimension width:
34 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
[top] View of a tobacco shop with black [slave] convicts who are chained together buying tobacco. Their guard speaks to a black woman with a basket on her head. The convicts wear flat hats to carry water casks on their heads. [bottom left] A blind black slave street musician sings and plays a musical instrument accompanied by a musician who plays a thumb piano and a boy who carries a sugar cane. [bottom right] A pastry or pandelos seller offers her wares to a black soldier. Another seller carries her pastries in a basket on her head.
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:
The text describes the fat Portuguese owners of the tobacco shop and how the convicts provision the fortresses and government buildings with water twice a day. The instrument that the blind singer uses is an Angola viola or a kind of lyre with four strings and the thumb piano is a marimba or oricongo. The sugar cane is identified as the nourishment of the musicians in text.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References exhibitions:
(detail) Brown, L. V. Africans in the New World, Fig. 1
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary:
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities