African slaves skinning a boa constrictor on a plantation in Surinam.
African slaves skinning a boa constrictor on a plantation in Surinam. Taken from Captain John Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, 1780. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
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