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