[Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth covered sedan chair on shoulders with woman inside, with surrounding text] – Antique Wall Art
![[Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth covered sedan chair on shoulders with woman inside, with surrounding text], [1824?] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9f/9f9e9f1dc7df-L.webp)
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Two enslaved men in Bahia carry a cloth-covered sedan chair on their shoulders, with a woman seated inside and hidden from the street. The scene was engraved for Maria Graham's *Journal of a Voyage to Brazil*, published in London in 1824, where it appears on page 133. Graham spent part of 1821 through 1823 in Brazil and recorded its daily life as a foreign visitor, and the sedan chair was a common way for wealthy women in the city to travel, carried by enslaved workers. The engraving may be the work of Edward Francis Finden, a London engraver.
| Created / published | [1824?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1820-1830.Prints 1820-1830. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 / Maria Graham. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and J. Murray, 1824, p. 133. Possibly engraved by Edward Francis Finden, 1791-1858. |
| Subjects | Slaves--Brazil--Salvador--1820-1830. Sedan chairs--Brazil--Salvador--1820-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 969 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168179 |
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