拍品專文
The peninsula of Sierra Leone was first settled in 1787 by Captain Thomson with four hundred freed slaves and sixty Europeans, following a proposal to found a colony of liberated African slaves. Clarkson supervised the transport of over a thousand freed American black slaves from Canada (where they had taken refuge after the American war of Independence) to Sierra Leone and his secretary, John Beckett, executed a series of watercolours commemorating the arrival of the Nova Scotian fleet off Sierra Leone. The present work appears to be amongst a group of copies made after Beckett's original drawings.