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Captain Paul Cuffee 1812 - Public domain portrait engraving
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Print shows a silhouette head-and-shoulders portrait of Paul Cuffe, a prosperous businessman and sea captain, above a ship docked in a tropical region, possibly Sierra Leone.
Printed on item: Engraved for Abrm. L. Pennock by Mason & Maas.
Printed on item: From a drawing by John Pole, M.D., of Bristol, Eng.
Inscribed on item: Paul Cuffee died in 1817 aged 66. He was a (?) Negro Captain of his own ships.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA and other venues.
Exhibited: "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 : A Long Struggle for Freedom" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 2014 - June 2015.
Cutting portraits, generally in profile, from black card became popular in the mid-18th century, though the term silhouette was seldom used until the early decades of the 19th century, and the tradition has continued under this name into the 21st century.
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