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The War on the Gold Coast: a belle of Cape Coast Castle, 1873. Young woman from West Africa. 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_007

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

5,9Mo (596,5Ko) / 9,9cm x 14,9cm / 1166 x 1754 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa female women woman people arts country stripes art costume continent clothes British African stripe striped dress hair traditional costume war location century Colonial material textiles Britain fabric newspapers press cloth clothing print hairstyle textile Ghana concept APPAREL B&W full length full-length hairdo engraved engraving hairdressing Gold Coast 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 wood engraving ILN newspaper portrait young women young woman Unknown tradition dress Anglo-Ashanti Wars 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News Third Anglo-Ashanti War