Sujet

Burning a condemned slave dhow at Funzi, Pemba Island, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Burning a condemned slave dhow at Funzi, Pemba Island, 1881. 'Another of the Sketches by our Special Artist at Zanzibar, Mr. J. Bell, is now engraved...[It] represents the burning of a condemned slave dhow at Funzi, in the isle of Pemba,...[Zanzibar]'. Captain Charles James Brownrigg, senior Royal Navy officer on the East African station for the suppression of the contraband slave trade, was killed by Arab slave traders at Pemba, Zanzibar. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_380

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

23,4Mo (2,1Mo) / 29,8cm x 19,7cm / 3520 x 2327 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation Africa wood people male man men boat boats arts art guy ship ships burning fire flame flames continent British Tanzania Zanzibar wooden war location century Britain newspapers press print concept Navy B&W east africa slavery destroying warfare engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships dhow archipelago naval warfare 19th century water transport black & white black and white slaver B W on fire nineteenth century Pemba Island Royal Navy The Print Collector Illustrated London News slave trade TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Charles James 19th-century The Illustrated London News Zanzibar Archipelago J. Bell Bell J. Charles James Brownrigg Brownrigg