Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A Negro boy on the River Gaboon on the coast of Africa receiving punishment for stealing chickens.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00752
Identifier
ark:/88435/mc87pz35q
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 22 x 18.3 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A38
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen drawings on laid paper
Depiction: Woman with whip beats boy tied to pole.
Watermark [partial].
Unsigned.
TR made a number of imaginary depictions of West Africa e.g. se Ivory Coast West Africa. Baskett&Snelgrove1977 #47 p22 <YCBA B1975.3.143>.

Discovery Information

Subject
Black people—Gabon—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Boys—Gabon—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Corporal punishment—Gabon—Caricatures and cartoons
Suffering—Gabon—Caricatures and cartoons
Terror—Gabon—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9c0a2f34-2292-44fc-bcde-652da208f2e0/manifest