Negro House at Sierra Leona

This engraving depicted a woman smoking a pipe and carrying a child on her back with children playing in the background. The accompanying text is describing the Sierra Leone area in the Upper Guinea Coast region. 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

Negro House at Sierra Leona

RegID

SI-OB-812

Date

1745-1747

Title

Negro House at Sierra Leona

Source

"Plate XXXVI" in Thomas Astley (ed.), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. 2 (London: Thomas Astley, 1745-1747), facing p. 312.

Language

English

Item sets

Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture

Spatial Coverage

Africa--Rivers--Sierra Leone

Reproduced In

Derived from a larger engraving based on the late seventeenth century voyages of Jean Barbot and published in Awnsham Churchill and John Churchill, Collection of Voyages (London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1732).

Researchers

Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Last Updated

2-Jun-16; 21-Aug-19

Identifier

Astley007