IMAGE
[Artist unknown] :White Negroes. Published by Thos Kelly, Paternoster Row. Plate 27. [ca 1835?]
- Date
- 1830 - 1840
- By
- Thomas Kelly (Firm); Sandilands & Paull (Firm)
- Reference
- B-047-005
- Description
Shows man and woman clad in feather or fur cloaks. The woman holds a bow and arrows, the man an axe. Removed from an unknown publication, with stitch-holes visible along left edge of sheet.
Hair colouring is blonde and skin is light in tone, so these are presumably intended to be albino or half-cast "negroes"
The couple does not appear to be Maori
Other Titles - Thos Kelly = Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row [London]
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Copper engraving, hand-coloured 238 x 185 mm to plate mark on sheet 274 x 215 mm
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Portraits, Conjectural works, Copper engraving, hand-coloured 238 x 185 mm to plate mark on sheet 274 x 215 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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