Woman of Senegambia beating cotton, 18th century

Woman of Senegambia beating cotton, 18th century. She beats the raw cotton instead of carding it. She sits on a wooden bench in front of a thatched hut. Negresse battant le coton au lieu de le carder. 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

Beating Bolls Coton Description Frederic Geoffroy Gourd Manners Moors Negress Sahara Senegambia Shoberl Spindle Spinning Stipple Villeneuve Woven

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