Sujet

Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890. Artist: Unknown

Légende

Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890. The Castle was originally built for the trade in timber and gold, and was later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1957, the Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to become independent, and was renamed Ghana. An engraving from Robert Brown's The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890).
The Print Collector collection

Date

1890

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19C13_092

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (4,0Mo) / 41,3cm x 30,3cm / 4876 x 3581 (300dpi)

Mots clés

océan mer côte colline bâtiment bâtiments fort pays continent géographie château fortification endroit siècle Le Ghana B&W esclavage MONOCHROME 19e siècle noir et blanc noir et blanc B W dix-neuvie siècle The Print Collector engraving landscape Unknown Robert Brown Robert Brown engraving landscape