Object Details
- Created by
- Lieutenant Henry Samuel Hawker, English, 1816 - 1889
- Caption
- The slave ship Diligente was engaged in the illegal slave trade when it was seized in 1838. A lieutenant in the British Royal Navy painted this scene from the ship. He captured the trauma of the Middle Passage in images of malnutrition and overcrowding.
- Source: Nancy Bercaw, Curator, Slavery and Freedom
- Description
- A watercolor painting of a slave ship showing five crew members with multiple enslaved persons crowded on the weather deck. A Portuguese flag flies from the ship and the sketched outline of another ship is visible in the background.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- May 1838
- Object number
- 2010.21.2ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Type
- watercolors
- Medium
- watercolor on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11 3/8 x 17 1/8 in. (28.9 x 43.5 cm)
- Place depicted
- Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America
- Portugal, Europe
- Nassau, Bahamas, Caribbean, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Africa
- Art
- Law
- Military
- Slavery
- Trans Atlantic slave trade
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2010.21.2ab
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5320730ca-6bd4-41e9-ac93-5ccf375e79ad
