Clothing Styles, Cape Verde Islands, early 18th cent.
The two copper engravings depicting inhabitants on one of the Cape Verde islands, were presumably produced by the publisher to accompany this fictional account by Defoe. Perhaps they were derived from another, albeit unidentified, source. The image on the left, captioned
Image Title
Clothing Styles, Cape Verde Islands, early 18th cent.
RegID
SI-OB-690
Title
Clothing Styles, Cape Verde Islands, early 18th cent.
Source
Daniel Defoe, The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts. . . Written by himself (London, 1726), between pp. 422 and 423. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Cabo Verde
Reproduced In
Daniel Defoe, The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts. . . Written by himself (London, 1726), between pp. 422 and 423.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
JCB_06513-2-3