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Slave Trade (Traité des nêgres)
John Raphael Smithca. 1794-1795
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Slave Trade (Traité des nêgres)
- Creator: Rollet after John Raphael Smith after George Morland
- Date Created: ca. 1794-1795
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate, lower right: “Gravé par la Cit.ae [Citoyenne] Rollet”; inscribed below, “Ce vil métier a été aboli par la Convention Nationale le 16 Pluviose l’An deuxieme de la République francaise une et indivisible”
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1997
- Materials & Techniques: Stipple engraving on white laid paper
- Keywords: Africa, families, genre, slavery, slaves
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Published by François Depeuille, Rue St. Denis Section Bon-conseil. Regarding date: Pluriose was the 5th month of the Republican calendar (from January 20, 21, or 22 to February 19, 20, or 21); Ernest Lowrie and Wesleyan Professor Nathaniel Greene both give 4 February 1794 as the date slavery was abolished, but the government kept changing the calendar. Depeuille moved to another address in 1795, thus the Rollet prints probably date to 1794–95; see Préaud, et al., Dictionnaire des éditeurs d’estampes… (1987), 101.
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 432 mm x 509 mm (17.01 in. x 20.04 in.). Sheet dimensions: 450 mm x 530 mm (17.72 in. x 20.87 in.).
- Associated People: Created by Rollet (French, active late 18th century), After John Raphael Smith (British (English), 1751-1812), After George Morland (British (English), 1763-1804)
- Accession Number: 1997.16.3
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