Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...
Published / Created:
London : Printed for J. Johnson ... & J. Edwards, 1796.
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsF2410 S81 1796+ Copy 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and ManuscriptsF2410 S81 1796+ Copy 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3494181
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrations by William Blake, Thomas Conder, Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Holloway, Inigo Barlow, Perry, Benedetti and A. Smith.Thirteen plates are engraved by William Blake and were done while he was apprenticed to Basire. Three more plates are definitely attributed to him and he may have been responsible for others. See Abbey and Essick.Bentley, G E. Blake bibliography, 408AEssick. William Blake's commercial book illustrations, xxxiiiKress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, 16679Johnson, J.M. "Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads." In Social Text 137, v. 36, no. 4, December 2018, pages 57-79Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 719BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy, a large paper copy with hand-colored engravings. Copy 2 is uncolored; the title page of each volume signed in manuscript "John Shan, 1798" (John Shan, vicar of Arreton on the Isle of Wight, died unmarried in 1799).
Exhibition History:
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
Subject Terms:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797 -- Travel -- Suriname. | Slavery -- Suriname -- History -- 18th century. | Indians of South America -- Guiana. | Voyages and travels. | Guinea -- Description and travel. | Suriname -- Description and travel. | Suriname -- History -- To 1814. | Shan, John -- Autograph.
