Sale 217 Lot 294  

NEGER-AUCTION / NEGER-VERKAUF / NEGERZUCHTIGUNG: HAND-COLORED BILDERBOGEN (PICTURE SHEET), NO. 291, PUBLISHED BY SCHAAL & WAGNER, STUTTGART 19th century Hand-colored lithograph sheet, known in German as a "Bilderbogen," a popular type of illustrated broadsheet produced in the 19th century, often meant to be cut apart into individual paper figures for children's play or educational display. This particular sheet, numbered 291 and published by Schaal & Wagner of Stuttgart, presents a series of small vignettes under three German/French captioned headings: "Neger-Auction / Vente enchere des Negres" (Slave Auction), "Neger-Verkauf / Vente publique des Negres" (Public Sale of Slaves), and "Negerzuchtigung / Punition des Negres" (Punishment of Slaves). Each grouping shows small hand-tinted figures set on individual painted ground bases, depicting scenes of the transatlantic and colonial slave trade, including an auction block, a public sale scene with European buyers, a domestic/plantation setting, and a punishment scene showing a bound figure being whipped while a uniformed overseer looks on. Unframed. sheet: 17 x 14 inches
$200-300

Sold for $190

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