Print; Benoit, Pierre Jacques; Suriname, French Guiana; 1839
Title:
Print; Benoit, Pierre Jacques; Suriname, French Guiana; 1839
Date:
1839
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
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