Caption
Freed female slave (former title), Manumitted woman, 'Manumittée', Album with drawings of Suriname, p.29 (50), drawing, watercolour, album page, costume study, Surinamese woman dressed in a light blue skirt, white blouse and light blue shawl. She is wearing a straw hat. In her left hand a white handkerchief, in her right hand a black closed parasol or umbrella. She is barefoot. According to the caption she is a manumitted woman, a woman who previously lived in slavery but was 'freed' before the abolition of slavery., inscription: '.', draftsman (artist): Jacob Marius Adriaan Martini van Geffen, Suriname, in or after c. 1850 - in or before c. 1860, draftsman (artist), paint (coating), materials by function, paper, ink, pencil, watercolor (paint), brush, washed ink, height 170 mm x width 260 mm x thickness 20 mm, freedom, slavery, liberation (of an enslaved person), persons of African origin, A full-length watercolor of a dark-skinned woman standing barefoot on a shaded ground, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat over a light headwrap and a loose shawl draped over her shoulders; she holds a closed umbrella over one shoulder with one hand and a folded cloth in the other, and she wears a long, vertically striped skirt tied at the waist with a sash, along with simple jewelry on her ear and wrist.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B47_153
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