Blacksmith or goldsmith at work, Senegambia, 18th century

Blacksmith or goldsmith at work, Senegambia, 18th century. He works unders thatched hut with tools including fire, anvil, hammer, pincers and bellows. Orfevre ou Forgeron Negre. A goldsmith. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's l'Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821

Battant Blacksmith Boll Carder Coton Description Frederic Geoffroy Goldsmith Lieu Manners Moors Sahara Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Thatched Villeneuve

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