Sujet

'Butcher's Shop of the Anziques', 1598, (1863). Creator: WH Wesley.

Légende

'Butcher's Shop of the Anziques', 1598, (1863). Sale of human flesh. Engraving by Theodor de Bry illustrating Filippo Pigafetta's Regnum Congo (Report of the Kingdom of Congo), which contains the oldest known account of cannibalism in Central Africa. Published in "Evidence as to man's place in nature" by Thomas Henry Huxley. [London, 1863]

Date

1598

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A23_117

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,3Mo (4,6Mo) / 25,3cm x 49,7cm / 2992 x 5874 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa food people black male library job man men head shopping shop shops discovery exploration evolution guy occupation continent African dead death knives meat location century profession exploring concept cutlery knife butcher controversy B&W chopping British Library flesh discovering chopper controversial dead body 19th century black & white black and white B W Cannibal 16th century dead bodies nineteenth century sixteenth century chopping block butcher's cannibalism severed head butcher's shop Charles Darwin Darwin Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley TH Huxley Charles Robert Filippo Heritage Art Thomas Henry 19th-century Professor Huxley WH Wesley Wesley WH W. H. Wesley Wesley W. H. Filippo Pigafetta Pigafetta