File:Job, son of Solliman Dgiallo, High Priest of Bonda in the Country of Foota, Africa (Ayuba Suleiman Diallo of Futa) RMG E9956.tiff
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after William Hoare |
| Description |
English: Job, son of Solliman Dgiallo, High Priest of Bonda in the Country of Foota, Africa [Ayuba Suleiman Diallo of Futa] Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, who became known in Europe as Job ben Solomon, was from a prominent family of African Muslim religious leaders in the kingdom of Futa (in modern-day Senegal). He was captured and sold into slavery on a tobacco plantation in Maryland but his release was secured by Thomas Bluett, a lawyer, who brought him to England in 1733 and the following year published 'Some Memories of the Life of Job, the Son of the Solomon High Priest of Boonda in Africa; Who was a Slave about two Years in Maryland; and afterwards being brought to England, was set free, and sent to his native Land in the Year 1734'. This is one of the earliest slave-trade narratives. During his brief stay in England, fashionable society interest in Diallo anticipated that in Omai, the Tahitian who returned from Cook's second voyage in the early 1770s. Despite a Muslim disinclination to be painted, he was persuaded to sit to the portraitist William Hoare of Bath and chose to be shown in African dress of white robes and turban (round a red cap). Round his neck he wears a copy of the Koran, in a red leather binding or close-fitting bag, of which the suspension thong forms part. This print is from Hoare's portrait, which frames the sitter in a brown false oval against a slightly lighter brownish background. |
| Date | circa 1734 |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 344 mm x 236 mm; Image: 192 mm x 149 mm |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/254928 |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
| Identifier | id number: ZBA2711 undefined: PR10 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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| current | 16:01, 31 December 2019 |  | 3,000 × 3,800 (32.62 MB) | SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs) | Bot: Image rotated by 90° |
| 02:19, 20 September 2017 |  | 3,800 × 3,000 (32.62 MB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Royal Museums Greenwich Fine art (1734), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/254928 #2223 |
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