Sujet

Sketches from the Gold Coast by our special artist: street scene, Cape Coast Castle, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sketches from the Gold Coast by our special artist: street scene, Cape Coast Castle, 1874. 'The women have necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and anklets of metal, and their hair is drawn up to a stiff ridge, with a pad or a high comb to support it; behind them is worn a "cankey," or cushion, upon which the baby is sometimes carried...In our Artist's sketch, the reader sees how the Cape Coast Castle women do their laundry-work, washing and hanging up things to dry, in the most public manner; and how their children, all but naked, roll about or gambol in the street, with sheep and goats, dogs and fowls, straying freely over the ground. The squalid lanes and alleys inhabited by these people were explored by our Artist; but he was obliged to hold a scented handkerchief to his nose, and could not make a sketch'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A32_222

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

28,1Mo (2,3Mo) / 31,0cm x 22,7cm / 3662 x 2685 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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