Items matching slavery (results page 1)

Aunt Silvia in her Domain Look at the Bright Side (1883)

A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-18

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81.—Captive wearing the Torque. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Torques, or gold and bronze necklaces composed of flexible bars, were peculiar to the people of this country.” (p. 22) “The symbols of the great republic were henceforward to become more familiar to [...]

Keywords: prisoners, punishments, slavery, people, slaves, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-26

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93.—Roman Galley. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An 1840s woodcut representing a Roman coin found in Britain; this coin shows a galley with cox and three (or six) oarsmen, or rowers. Counter to current practice, the rowers face forward. See Fig. 94 [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, slavery, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-09-16

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94.—Roman Galley. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows a Roman coin, with a picture of a galley being rowed, whether by slaves or soldiers we cannot tell; the coinbears the words, ilicita avg s c cosiiipp. The galleys in which the cava [...]

Keywords: boats, ships, slavery, people, roman coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-03

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140.—To be sold by Auction. New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A man, the auctioneer, smartly dressed with jacket and cravat, sits at an auctioneer’s bench with a gavel held up in one hand. Underneath him the legend, “To be sold by Auction.” This engraving would [...]

Keywords: signs, captions, auctions, people, commerce, clipart, slavery, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-09-30

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Slave Market Pictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878)

“I must mention, as one of the ex-Kedive’s best actions, the abolition of the slave trade, which was flourishing in Egypt only a short time since. Very few years have gone by since I myself was one of [...]

Keywords: slavery, slaves, people, ancient egypt, streets, cities, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2005-05-31

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Building A Roman Temple A Popular History of Rome (1886)

Slave labour! The men working in this illustration are scantily clad: they wear shorts or loin-cloths, and have bare backs and bare feet. An ox-driver leans with his stick against two oxen; he has a [...]

Keywords: ancient rome, bare feet, slaves, slavery, animals, construction, greyscale

Places shown: Italy

Added: 2005-03-20

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Cleopatra A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

A Pre-Rapaelite drawing showing Cleopatra with some round-breasted topless women, presumably slaves or attendants, standing behind her with musical instruments. Incense burns in the foreground, and a [...]

Keywords: people, women, slaves, slavery, music, musical instruments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-04

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