Hand-colored aquatint by J. Clark after Hutton; mounted figure in military costume with large plumed head-dress, carrying spear, riding towards left. From: Hutton, 'A Voyage To Africa: Including A Narrative Of An Embassy To One Of The Interior Kingdoms In The Year 1820... (London, 1821). Adoo Quamina was a captain and courtier to the Asante king. According to Hutton, he "made frequent visits, and we considered him much more as a spy of the [Asante] government, than a benevolent visitor'."
Notes:
Small upright, matted; margins severely trimmed; slightly soiled.
Hutton, William, and Clark, J.,
"Adoo Quamina"
(1821).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
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