View of a Fûlî Town & Plantations About It
This engraving depicts a walled and circular Fulɓe (or Fula, Fulani, Peul, Fulaw) village and surrounding lands with livestock and other agricultural/pastoral activities likely from the Senegambia region. Francis Moore (d. 1756) was an English travel writer and clerk of the Royal African Company. He was stationed at the Gambia River between 1730 and 1735. Moore visited numerous towns and trading posts along the Gambia River from its mouth to the Guinea Highlands hundreds of miles inland. Thomas Astley (d. 1759) was a British bookseller and publisher who never went to Africa. His imagined localities and illustrations of Africa were informed by a library of travel books at his disposal.
Image Title
View of a Fûlî Town & Plantations About It
RegID
SI-OB-809
Date
1745-1747
Title
View of a Fûlî Town & Plantations About It
Source
"Plate XXXIX" in Thomas Astley (ed.), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. 2 (London: Thomas Astley, 1745-1747), facing p. 264.
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Western Savanna
Reproduced In
A near identical engraving is in Edward Cavendish Drake, A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time (London: Printed for J. Cooke, et al., 1768), facing p. 521.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
5-Apr-16; 21-Aug-19
Identifier
Astley004