A Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina - From a Sketch by Eyre Crowe - 1856

Description

A
Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina,
painted in 1854,
was one of the first paintings to be finished after
Eyre
Crowe’s return from
a trip to
America. The
framed copy of the
engraving
offered
here,
‘from a sketch by Eyre Crowe’
, is similar to the painting, but has many differences in detail. The engraving was based on the actual scene witnessed by Crowe in Charleston in 1853. He published it in the
Illustrated London News
on 29 November 1856, accompanying an essay which he concluded with a call for greater public condemnation of slavery by the British.
Our offering is the published version of the picture, as detached from the
Illustrated London News
.
The engraving is well known and copies are held by many galleries, print dealers and museums. Sometimes the copies are colored. Two versions are held at the New York Public Library and appear on their
digital gallery. The original painting is
owned by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba.
T
he engraving, which measures approximately 9 ¾ x 14 inches, is housed in a 12 x 16 inch metal frame.
T
he engraving
is in very good condition; the frame has some markings in the upper right corner.
Eyre Crowe
(1824–1910) was a British painter, principally of
historical art and genre scenes,
but with an interest in
social realism.
He was born in London, and grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalist Eyre Evans Crowe and brother of the journalist, diplomat and art historian Joseph Archer Crowe (whose son. Also Eyre Crowe), became an important diplomat. He was a pupil of William Darley and later Paul Delaroche in Paris. He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London between 1846 and 1908. In 1876 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. [Wikipedia]
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