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Nicholas Pocock
Description:
Portrait, Nicholas Pocock , an engraving after a painting by his son, c1871. Pocock was a ship’s captain and an artist. His early voyages to sea may have included some on slave ships, which would explain his pictures of the trading of slaves at the coast of West Africa. (Many of his pictures can be seen on this webiste).
Creator: Pocock
Date: c1871
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M 3033
Retired sailor
Description:
Picture of retired sailor in an almshouse run by the Society of Merchant Venturers.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
The Steadfast West Indiaman
Description:
The Steadfast West Indiaman, belonging to Thomas Daniel and Son, in the Mud Dock, by TLS Rowbotham. Thomas Daniel was one of Bristol’s biggest sugar merchants
Creator: TLS Rowbotham
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Minature of Hannah More
Description:
Minature of Hannah More. Influential Bristolian who began her career as a playwright and founded a school for young ladies in Park Street, Bristol. In her later years, she became an Evangelical Christian, establishing Sunday Schools, writing religious tracts and campaigning against the slave trade
Creator: British School
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:K 4515
Printed textile
Description:
Printed textile, France, circa 1830, design based on George Morland prints, The Slave Trade and African Hospitality published 1791.
Date: 1830
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Description:
Print of Thomas Coster, 18th century.
Thomas Coster was a wealthy merchant. He inherited a copper works, which would have sold much of its output of brass pots and pans to slave traders. Brassware made up a large proportion of the trade goods carried to Africa. Coster was also involved in the slave trade as co-owner of six slaving ships. He was Tory MP for Bristol from 1734 to 1739.
Date: 18th C
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:M777
Mahogany sample and caddy
Description:
Mahogany veneer sample and veneered tea caddy, late 18th century.
With thanks to Lisa White for the use of this item.
Date: late 18th century
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Shop sign
Description:
Tobacconist’s shop sign. Tobacco leaves were rolled up into a rope or twist, and the rope of tobacco coiled for storage. This wooden sign represents a coil of tobacco, to be hung outside a tobacconist’s shop. Tobacco was grown on the Caribbean plantations owned by the Bristish. Enslaved Africans worked on the plantations.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Mahogany sample
Description:
Mahogany sample.
With thanks to Lisa White for the use of this item.
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
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