[Rarebooks] Corrected Photos for: THE SLAVE TRADE (HAND-COLORED COPPER PLATE ENGRAVING). Weimar: Industrie-Comptoir, 1805

[Ezra Tishman]

Apologies: Wrong pics sent with original FS posting.

Here is the corrected set of photos for the copper-plate etching of The Slave Trade:



https://www.dropbox.com/s/bte3e086rstus5b/SLAVESHIP1.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zd1pwm33rogwjn/SLAVESHIP2.jpg?dl=0



> This afternoon Ezra from Aardvark offers this Hand-Colored Copper Plate Engraving of several scenes depicting the Slave Trade.
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> Bertuch, Friedrich Justin . THE SLAVE TRADE (COPPER PLATE ENGRAVING). Weimar: Industrie-Comptoir, 1805 . Hand colored copper-plate engraving from vo. 5, no. 43 of Bilderbuch für Kinde (Children's Picture Book). Single leaf, 9 1/2" x 7 1/2." Moderate toning and foxing on lightly tanned paper. Binders glue residue on edge. Excellent impression and bright coloring. Very good . Print . $350
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> The stark brutality of the slave trade is laid bare in this illustration from Bilderbuch für Kinder (Children's Picture Book).
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> This landmark series comprised twelve volumes published between 1790 and 1830. These richly illustrated encyclopedias
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> were meant to capture children's attention and educate them on a variety of subjects, including natural history, architecture, and ethnography. (Wikipedia)
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> This heart-wrenching engraving illustrates the horrors of the slave trade. In the foreground of Figure 1, children cling to their
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> father as he is torn away by his enslavers. A slave trader is poised with an arm raised, ready to strike one of the children. Violence can be seen in the middle-ground too, as two men on horseback grasp the wrists of a naked man, presaging the chains that will bind him. Slave ships wait ominously in the harbor.
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> Figure 2 depicts the inhumane conditions that captives endured on those slave ships. The image represents the extremely narrow confines which captives experienced. As the text that would accompany the image states, "Many of them perish with hunger...but a far greater number is swept off by epidemical diseases which very often break out from the hot climate and bad air that naturally reigns in these miserable dungeons." (Bertuch, Vol. V. No. 43).
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> The author, Friedrich Justin Bertuch, collaborated with multiple artists to create Bilderbuch für Kinder. A signed copy at the
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> Maryland African American History Museum indicates that the illustrator of this particular leaf was Jacob Xaver Schmuzer
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> (MSWB.2017.85.54). 
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