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Europe supported by Africa & America. [Colour Version - Heightened with Gold]
Complete
1796
Bentley-Blake Collection
Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver
1 leaf : colour illustration ; 29 x 23 cm
Rare Books
Plate opposite page 394, Vol. II, in: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797. Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777, elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots.
Size of image: 19 x 14 cm
"The 81 plates are dated Dec. 1792, Dec. 1793, Dec. 1794, and Dec. 1795, and 39 have no engraver's name. Thirteen are signed "Blake Sculpt."; besides these, GEB & Keynes (1921) are confident that Blake also engraved the plates opposite volume 1, page 227; volume 2, page 104; and volume 2, page 296, which are not signed."--Cf. Bentley.
Copies are often found coloured; those in which Gold is used may have been coloured early. Keynes (Blake studies [1971], 103) says that, besides the ordinary copies of 21.5 x 26.6 cm., there are copies on large paper of 23 x 29.5 cm. with the imprint in Vol. I as 'London Printed by J. Johnson ... (the Vol. II imprint is corrected as above) and 'the plates admirably coloured by hand'--Bentley.
Of the other sixty-five plates 13 are signed by Barlow, 7 by T. Conder, 3 by Bartolozzi, 2 each by Benedetti and A. Smith, and 1 each by T. Holloway and Perry.
See Catalogue Link below for full Victoria University Library catalogue record.
Blake Suppl. no.197 v.2
Public Domain
Indians of South America -- Suriname
Slavery -- Suriname
Suriname -- History -- To 1814
Suriname -- Description and travel
S0197
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797, illustrator
https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/1ljrbt7/alma991106596098206196
Art print
11208
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