Caption, Negre montant au palmier pour recuellir le vin (Black climbing a palm tree to collect wine); two men, one climbing tree, house in background. Villeneuve lived in the Senegal region for about two years in the mid-to-late 1780s. The engravings in his book, he writes, were made from drawings that were mostly done on the spot during his African residence (vol. 1, pp. v-vi). The same illustration appears in color in the English translation of Villeneuve; see Frederic Shoberl (ed.), Africa; containing a description of the manners and customs, with some historical particulars of the Moors of the Zahara . . . (London, 1821).
Climbing a Palm Tree, Senegal, 1780s
SI-OB-613
1780-1790
Climbing a Palm Tree, Senegal, 1780s
Renè Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sènègal (Paris, 1814), vol. 4, facing p. 162. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
French
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Africa--Western Savanna
Renè Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sènègal (Paris, 1814), vol. 4, facing p. 162.
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
25-Aug-10
VILE-162