Ignace Sancho

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• PUBLISHER: Danlos editeur, 1 Quai Malaquais, Paris

• MEDIUM: Etching & engraving

  DATE: c.1840

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 10 1/8 x 6 1/2" (26 x 16.5 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: A nineteenth-century French portrait of the British abolitionist, composer, and writer Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780), engraved by Mademoiselle Coignet. This plate was originally produced to illustrate Cyrille-Charles-Auguste Bissette’s Revue des colonies (1834–1842), the first French abolitionist journal edited and directed by people of color, where Sancho was profiled as an example of Black intellectual achievement. The lower margin carries the publication line of Danlos at 1 Quai Malaquais, indicating this specific impression was issued or distributed separately as a standalone portrait by the Parisian print seller. It stands as a scarce continental record of Sancho’s iconography and a significant artifact of nineteenth-century French anti-slavery publishing.

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• CONDITION: Good condition.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , Famous People