Kongeliche danske hoved Castell Christiansborg ved Accra
"Main royal Danish castle of Christiansborg at Accra" (caption translation). Built by the Danes in 1660, this engraving shows the north and east sides of fort, from the southwest. It also depicts the neighboring African town of Accra in the Voltaic region. A clearer plate of this illustration, as well as a view from the northeast, is publshed in Selena Axelrod Winsnes, trans. and ed., A reliable account of the coast of Guinea (1760) by Ludewig Ferdinand Romer (Oxford University Press, 2000), plates 2 and 3. Also reproduced in A. W. Lawrence, Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa (Stanford Univ. Press, 1964), plate 44.
Image Title
Kongeliche danske hoved Castell Christiansborg ved Accra
RegID
SI-OB-119
Date
1750
Title
Kongeliche danske hoved Castell Christiansborg ved Accra
Source
Ludewig Romer, Tilforladelig Efterretning om Kysten Guinea [A reliable account of the coast of Guinea] (Copenhagen, 1760), between p. 290-291.
Language
English
Item sets
European Forts & Trading Posts in Africa
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic--Accra
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
D002