Types of Morocco: Slave ("Types du Maroc. - Enslave")

Joseph Boussuge, Algerian, active 1900 - 1920

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early 20th century

Photo offset lithograph postcard

Overall: 5 7/16 × 3 9/16 in. (13.8 × 9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

2006.18.15

Geography

Place Made: Algeria, Northern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, in black ink, top center: Types du MAROC. - Esclave; printed, in black ink, along left side, center: J. Boussuge, a Casablanca; inscribed on reverse, in graphite, top center: MOROCCO-slave

Course History

HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012

GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.

Publication History

Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 223, plate 95.

Provenance

Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.

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