Le Prince Adoom
This fanciful illustration depicts prince Adum walking with a small child. According to Hutton’s description, “this person was prince Adoom, nephew of the Ashantée king, [who arrived] with an escort ‘of 500 armed men,’ other domestics and slaves in great numbers. . . the king was tired of sending messengers to the governor [at Cape Coast], he had now given his nephew, prince Adoom, the full power to negotiate and end the discussion” (p. 121-123). William Hutton was a British writer and artist who served briefly in the British foreign service in the Voltaic region. In January 1820, Hutton was part of a British envoy that received Adum, the nephew of the Asantehene (king), at Cape Coast.
Image Title
Le Prince Adoom
RegID
SI-OB-661
Date
1820
Title
Le Prince Adoom
Source
William Hutton, Nouveau voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, ou, Relation de l'ambassade anglaise envoyée en 1820, au royaume d'Ashantée (Paris, 1823), facing p. 192. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
Language
French
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic
Reproduced In
William Hutton, Nouveau voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique, ou, Relation de l'ambassade anglaise envoyée en 1820 , au royaume d'Ashantée (Paris, 1823), facing p. 192.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
Hutton01