Shoemaker and Assistants, Brazil,1816-1831
Caption, Boutique de Cordoniere, shows white shoemaker with black assistants/apprentices. A nursing mother shown on the left, while the shoemaker is beating a slave with a palmatoria, a wooden paddle with holes in it (James Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African Portuguese World, 1441-1770 [University of North Carolina Press, 2003], p. 212). The engravings in this book were taken from drawings made by Debret during his residence in Brazil from 1816 to 1831. For watercolors by Debret of scenes in Brazil, some of which were incorporated into his Voyage Pittoresque, see Jean Baptiste Debret, Viagem Pitoresca e Historica ao Brasil (Editora Itatiaia Limitada, Editora da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1989; a reprint of the 1954 Paris edition, edited by R. De Castro Maya).
Image Title
Shoemaker and Assistants, Brazil,1816-1831
RegID
SI-OB-254
Date
1816-1831
Title
Shoemaker and Assistants, Brazil,1816-1831
Source
Jean Baptiste Debret, Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Bresil (Paris,1834-39),vol. 2, plate 29, p. 91. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
French
Item sets
Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities
Spatial Coverage
South America--Brazil
Reproduced In
Jean Baptiste Debret, Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Bresil (Paris,1834-39),vol. 2, plate 29, p. 91.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
NW0146