Printed Ephemera — 1857
Description of A View of Sierra Leone Including the City of Freetown and the Adjacent Country.
Description and illustrated plan of the panoramic view of Sierra Leone including the city of Freetown as exhibited at the Panorama, Leicester Square in 1857. It comprises a 16-page description and a folded plan with a numbered key. The exhibit that it promotes was a huge 360° painting displayed in a purpose-built rotunda. Sierra Leone became a British colony in 1808, and Freetown was a city originally established for freed black American slaves in 1792. The country's population is described in the guide as being: 'about 50,000, nine-tenths of whom are blacks, liberated from slave ships [...] they include people from almost every part of intertropical Africa, speaking 151 different languages'.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 67.35/76
- Object name:
- Description of A View of Sierra Leone Including the City of Freetown and the Adjacent Country.
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- Artist/Maker:
- Golbourn, W. J.
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- Production date:
- 1857
- Material:
paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 216 mm, W 140 mm
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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