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Image Reference
VILE-178
Source
René Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sénégal (Paris, 1814), vol. 4, facing p. 178. (Copy in Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)
Comments
Caption, "Orfevre ou Forgeron Negre" (Black Goldsmith or Blacksmith); man at work with his tools, including anvil, hammer, files, pincers, and goatskin bellows. Villeneuve lived in the Senegal region for about two years in the mid-to-late 1780s. The engravings in his book, he writes, were made from drawings that were mostly done on the spot during his African residence (vol. 1, pp. v-vi). The same illustration appears in color in the English translation of Villeneuve; see Frederic Shoberl (ed.), Africa; containing a description of the manners and customs, with some historical particulars of the Moors of the Zahara . . . (London, 1821), vol. 3, facing p. 155.
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