Prince Cinque / Romare Bearden. – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Prince Cinque / Romare Bearden., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Prince Cinque / Romare Bearden.
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Cinque, the Mende man named in this 1971 color screen print by Romare Bearden, led the 1839 revolt aboard the Spanish slave ship *La Amistad* off the coast of Cuba. After the ship was seized near Long Island, New York, the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 1841 that the captives had been illegally enslaved and were free. Bearden, best known for his collages of Black life in America, turned to this episode of armed resistance and legal victory. The print is signed in pencil.
| Created / published | [1971] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : screen print, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1970-1980.Screen prints Color 1970-1980. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. Title from label on recto mat. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:015.3329 |
| Subjects | Cinque. Amistad (Schooner)--1830-1840. Slave rebellions--1830-1840. Slave ships--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,816 × 4,765 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219769 |
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