Sujet

The Ashantee War: the market-place at Coomassie, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Ashantee War: the market-place at Coomassie, 1873. 'Coomassie [in the Gold Coast is] the capital of King Koki Kankalli...The streets are wide, the houses are mostly uniform in structure...The front[s of the houses are] ornamented with rude geometrical figures in relief, coloured red, and above the ground floor whitewashed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A12_385

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

41,5Mo (4,3Mo) / 31,2cm x 33,3cm / 3689 x 3932 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature Africa female women woman people black male child children job man men sell selling shopping fruit plant plants arts country nut nuts market art trade guy pot occupation continent British African Arab marketplace buying trader traders war ceramic location ceramics century seller material textiles gesturing Britain profession fabric newspapers press cloth print textile Ghana pottery concept sugar cane B&W hand gesture gourd engraved engraving gourds hand Gestures Gold Coast 19th century black & white black and white B W wares sugarcane market place nineteenth century The Print Collector Ashanti Ghanaian Illustrated London News Kumasi stallholder TGN wood engraving ILN Coomassie newspaper kola nut Unknown calabash gourd Anglo-Ashanti Wars 19th-century The Illustrated London News A. H. H. A. stallholders Third Anglo-Ashanti War kola nuts