![Pl. IX. [Funeral in Suriname, South America.]](jpegs/17996.jpg)
Pl. IX. [Funeral in Suriname, South America.]
P.J. Benoit del. Madou lith.
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper (two images), sheet 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10".
Funeral procession for a European, presumably a plantation owner, at a cemetary in Paramaribo, the capital and largest city of Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The compositons feature black slaves as mourners, holding parasols and carrying the coffin, also a skull in the ground in lower image. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 17996] £140.00
[Brussels, Belgium, 1839.]
Lithograph on india laid paper (two images), sheet 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10".
Funeral procession for a European, presumably a plantation owner, at a cemetary in Paramaribo, the capital and largest city of Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The compositons feature black slaves as mourners, holding parasols and carrying the coffin, also a skull in the ground in lower image. After Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782 - 1854), from his 'Voyage a` Surinam. Description des possessions ne´erlandaises dans la Guyane ... Cent dessins pris sur nature par l’auteur, lithographie´s par Madou et Lauters.'
BNF: FRBNF38495521. BL: 000275495.
[Ref: 17996] £140.00