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The War on the Gold Coast: a bush woman, 1873. Mother carrying her child in a baby wrap, balancing a pot on her head. Engraving 'copied from photographs lent us by Mr. James Irvine, F.R.G.S., of Birkenhead. He got them in 1869, at Cape Coast Castle, from the photographer there, who is a native of Sierre Leone'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A14_005

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

5,9Mo (574,9Ko) / 10,0cm x 14,7cm / 1178 x 1738 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa female carrying women woman people black child children work family arts infant baby babies country parent stripes art costume continent clothes British balance African mother balanced stripe striped infancy dress balancing traditional costume war motherhood location century Colonial material textiles Britain fabric parenting newspapers press cloth clothing print childcare textile Ghana concept APPAREL B&W full length full-length multitasking multi-tasking engraved engraving baby carrier mum Gold Coast child care 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector colonialism Ghanaian Illustrated London News imperialism TGN traditional dress West African women at work wood engraving ILN newspaper working portrait Unknown tradition dress Anglo-Ashanti Wars baby wrap 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News Third Anglo-Ashanti War