Print; Benoit, Pierre Jacques; Suriname, French Guiana; 1839
Subject:
Prints; Jewish merchants
Description:
Two lithographic prints from Trip to Surinam: Description of the possessions of the Dutch in French Guiana by Pierre Jacques Benoit from 1839. There is a handwritten legend in the bottom margin in French. The lithograph on the top shows two connected stores and in one a merchant shows an item to a woman. The sign above the shop is "Isak Abraham Levy Aron Vet Warier." In the bottom lithograph, a group of Guyanese people perform various tasks outside of a house; French Guiana; Suriname
Date:
1839
Language:
French
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Engravings titled Sources d'eau froide a la Savane des Juifs and Village habite par des juifs au sommet de la montagne by Jean Baptiste Madou. The engravings were removed from the book Voyage a Surinam. Description des possessions Neerlandaises dans La Guyane, by P.J. Benoit, Bruxelles, Societe de Beaux- Arts, 1839
Date:
1839
Language:
French
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
