Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Marchand de tabac. [bottom left] L'aveugle chanteur. [bottom right] Marchande de pandelos.
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Accession number:
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07385
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Record number:
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07385-7
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JCB call number:
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E834 D288v / 3-SIZE
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Image title:
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[top] Marchand de tabac. [bottom left] L'aveugle chanteur. [bottom right] Marchande de pandelos.
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Creator 1:
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Jean Baptiste Debret
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Creator 1 dates:
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1768-1848
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Creator 1 role:
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delt.
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Creator 2:
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Thierry Frères, succrs. de Engelmann & Cie.
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Creator 2 role:
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lith. de
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[Firmin Didot Frères]
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Image date:
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[1835]
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Image function:
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plate 41; vol. 2, following p. 126
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Technique:
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lithograph
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Image dimension height:
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28.7 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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23.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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54 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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34 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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French
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Description:
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[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.
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Source creator:
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Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848
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Source Title:
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Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil ... Tome deuxième
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Source place of publication:
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Paris
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Source publisher:
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Firmin Didot Frères, imprimeurs de l'Institut de France
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Source date:
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M DCCC XXXV [1835]
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notes:
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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.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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References exhibitions:
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(detail) Brown, L. V. Africans in the New World, Fig. 1
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Commentary:
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geographic area:
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Brazil
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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