Afrikaanse mensen helpen Britse schipbreukelingen, John Raphael Smith, after George Morland, 1791

Title(s)

Afrikaanse mensen helpen Britse schipbreukelingen
African Hospitality (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1969-82

Catalogue reference

• Aantal staten bekend-2(3)
  Remark: eerdere en latere staat aanwezig in British Museum

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: John Raphael Smith (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: George Morland (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John Raphael Smith (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

Feb-1791

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / à la poupée / hand coloring

Measurements

height 474 mm × width 644 mm

What

• shipwreck
• drowning, shipwrecked person
• storm at sea
• help (to an endangered fellow man)
• giving drink
• saving a person from drowning
• Europeans: Englishmen
• Africans

Where

• West-Afrika

Acquisition

purchase 1969

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Afrikaanse familie wordt gescheiden door Europese slavenhandelaren

• "Copper into gold" : prints by John Raphael Smith 1751-1812, cat.nr. 314
• An 18th century artist and engraver John Raphael Smith : his life and work, cat.nr. 5-II