‘Kooranko man smoking’ and ‘Furnace for smelting iron’
Date
ca.1822-1825
Creator
Alexander Gordon Laing (1794 - 1826, British) , Explorer
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Dimensions
height (painting): 113mm
width (painting): 184mm
width (painting): 184mm
Subject
Description
Portrait of a Koranko man seated and smoking a long pipe and a figure of a furnace for smelting iron.
From a collection of drawings and maps belonging to Alexander Gordon Laing, relating to his expedition of West Africa. These two paintings relate to Falaba in Sierra Leone, Africa.
Published in ‘Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Solima Countries, 1825’
Alexander Gordon Laing (1794-1826) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a British explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu.
From a collection of drawings and maps belonging to Alexander Gordon Laing, relating to his expedition of West Africa. These two paintings relate to Falaba in Sierra Leone, Africa.
Published in ‘Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Solima Countries, 1825’
Alexander Gordon Laing (1794-1826) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a British explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu.
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