Items matching slavery (results page 1)

Aunt Silvia in her DomainLook 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, captivity, men, topless, shirtless, torques, collars, 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 MarketPictureseque 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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Vanquished Army Passing Under the YokePopular History of Rome, A (1886)

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable says, in the entry for Yoke, “To pass under the yoke. To suffer the disgrace of a vanquished army. The Romans made a yoke of three spears—two upright and one r [...]

Keywords: battles, ancient rome, bare feet, slaves, slavery, hemets, spears, weapons, defeat, roman soldiers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-03-20

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Building A Roman TemplePopular History of Rome, A (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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Vicorian room used as a borderIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This border is made by drawing a white rectangle over the picture of the girl sitting reading a book indoors in summer and also copying the outer border of the image to the sides of the white rectangl [...]

Keywords: frames, borders, slavery, victoriana, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-02-11

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Combat of Gladiators with Wild AnimalsPopular History of Rome, A (1886)

In the foreground, a Roman gladiator fights with a lion; he is naked from head to foot except for what look like metal underpants and a ring around his left leg, and he brandishes a short sword or dag [...]

Keywords: weapons, people, nudity, animals, bare feet, lions, gladiators, battles, slaves, slavery, greyscale

Places shown: Rome

Added: 2007-09-03

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CleopatraRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (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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Slaves for the HaremLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

Cautivas Para El Harem Captives for the Harem. This picture shows two young women with their wrists bound being forced to walk alongside a man with beard and headdress (perhaps a turban) who is riding [...]

Keywords: slavers, slaves, slavery, captovoty, horses, people, spears, weapons, eunuchs, turbans, beards, men, women, boys, colour

Places shown: unknown

Added: 2021-03-06

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Roman slaves carrying an amphoraLa Civilizacion (1881)

Two men are walking, about to go up the steps and out of a cellar, one in front of the other; they have a wooden post over their shoulders from which a large amphora is suspended, reaching almost to t [...]

Keywords: amphoras, slaves, people, men, bare feet, costumes, work, cellars, steps, entrances, arches, ancient rome, carrying, slavery, basements, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-24

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G. Tornai: At the haremModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A woman, baring her breasts, is dancing in a harem, one arm over her heard, her feet bare. In the background a musician plays a lyre; another woman serves Moroccan-style tea on an octagonal side-table [...]

Keywords: harems, slavers, slavery, nudity, breasts, women, people, dancing, music, dance, oriental, middle eastern, interiors, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-05-16

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