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Inna, the Booroom Slave
1838
Medium/Technique
Lithograph with hand coloring
Credit Line
Gift of Anonynous giver
Accession NumberM12672
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionThis print was advertised in The Hartford Courant, beginning on September 10, 1838, and in subsequent issues: "Inna, The Booroom Slave, a beautiful colored print, copied from the Forget-Me-Not of 1828, By Mssrs. D. W. Kellogg & Co., just published and for sale, wholesale or retail, at the Depository, No 7 Saylum st. sept. 10"
The painting by Henry Thomson dates from 1827. The image first appeared in print, and was here copied from, a version engraved by E. Finden, published in the 1828 edition of the lterary annual "gift book" The Forget-Me-Not (London: Rudoph Ackermann, 1828). The print accompanied a short story by Sarah Bowdich called The Booroom Slave, which told of a young African woman of high standing who was kidnapped by slave traders, and, after escaping her captors, eventually found her way home, with the aid of several Englishwomen who, it is implied, also started her on a path to Christian conversion. The story, and image, become widely resproduced in abolition movement on both sides of the Atlantic.
The painting by Henry Thomson dates from 1827. The image first appeared in print, and was here copied from, a version engraved by E. Finden, published in the 1828 edition of the lterary annual "gift book" The Forget-Me-Not (London: Rudoph Ackermann, 1828). The print accompanied a short story by Sarah Bowdich called The Booroom Slave, which told of a young African woman of high standing who was kidnapped by slave traders, and, after escaping her captors, eventually found her way home, with the aid of several Englishwomen who, it is implied, also started her on a path to Christian conversion. The story, and image, become widely resproduced in abolition movement on both sides of the Atlantic.
InscriptionsIn stone, at lower left: H. Thomson RA delt.
In stone, at lower center: Inna, the Booroom Slave
In stone, at lower right: Lith of D.W. Kellogg & Co. Hartford Con.
In stone, at lower center: Inna, the Booroom Slave
In stone, at lower right: Lith of D.W. Kellogg & Co. Hartford Con.