Tallis, John: Western Africa

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Tallis, John : Western Africa

The London Printing & Publishing Company, c.1855.

Steel-engraving, 250 x 330mm. Original outline colour.

With engraved vignette scenes of Sierra Leone and the old slave posts of Christiansborg, Cape Coast Castle and Bakel. Of particular interest is the early depiction of the Republic of Liberia, founded in 1849 by African Americans who had been freed from slavery. Monrovia, the only foreign capital city named after a U.S. President (James Monroe), is marked.

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