Stobwasser, L.:

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ANSICHTEN VON MISSIONS=NIEDERLASSUNGEN DER EVANGELISCHEN BRUDER=GEMEINDE. VUES DES ETABLISSEMENS MISSIONAIRES FONDES PAR LA COMMUNAUTE EVANGELIQUE DES ... A lovely suite of four aquatint plates depicting scenes on Antigua, in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies. The engravings were made from original work by L. Stobwasser, with the first plate engraved by Hegi and the following three by Hürliman. The entire project was commissioned by the Moravian Church as a way of promoting their work on the island. The first plate shows slaves at rest before the Moravian mission house in the capital of St. Johns, and the other three show scenes of field workers, plantation houses, and the Antiguan landscape. The views all depict the native and enslaved workers who would have been the subject of Stobwasser and the Moravians' missionary efforts on the island. The plates are as follows:1) "Vue de l'Establissement des Missions a St. Johns dans l'Isle d'Antigon aux Indes occidentales." A group of seven Antiguans, young and old, male and female, sits around a large tree in the courtyard of the Moravian mission complex. Other islanders are seen walking into or past various buildings.2) "Vue de Gracehill dans l'Isle d'Antigoa aux Indes occidentales." A lovely landscape with a plantation house situated in the background. In the foreground a female field worker and her three children carry sticks and provisions past the well-dressed plantation owners, who carry umbrellas and wear top hats.3) "Vue

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