G.J. Rowe (active 1820-36) after J. Beckett

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G.J. Rowe (active 1820-36) after J. Beckett

View of the Colony of Sierra Leone, previous to the transport being discharged, A.D. 1792; View of the town in the River of Sierra Leone, Novr 10, 1792; and View of the English Slave Factory on Banse Island taken from the Island of Passa in the River of Sierra Leone

one signed and dated 'G.J. Rowe Delt/1820',
two signed and dated 'G.J. Rowe Delt/1826', all inscribed 'From original Sketches by J. Beckett Esqr./In the Possession of J. Clarkson Esqr.', watercolour
each 16¼ x 22½in. (41.3 x 57.2cm.)
three (3)

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 (see above) 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 the present three watercolours are from a series of copies thought to have been commissioned by Clarkson after originals executed by his secretary, John Beckett, commemorating the arrival of the Nova Scotian fleet off Sierra Leone. For an identical set of copies see Sotheby's, 4 Nov. 1987, lots 203-5