Harriet Tubman series, panel 11

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Title Harriet Tubman series, panel 11
Creator Jacob Lawrence
Creator Nationality American
Style Period 20th Century Art; Modern Art
Description $500 Reward! Runaway fro subscriber on Thursday night, the 4th inst., from the neighborhood of Cambridge, my negro girl, Harriet, sometimes called Minty. Is dark chestnut color, rather stout build, but bright and handsome. Speaks ratehr deep and has a scar over the left temple. She wore a brown plaid shawl. I will give the reward captured outside the county, and $300 if captured inside the county, in either case to be lodged in the Cambridge, Maryland, jail. (Signed) George Carter, Broadacres, near Cambridge, Maryland, Spetember 24, 1849"
Subject African American Art; Harlem Renaissance; History
Creation Date 1938 - 1940 CE
Form painting
Medium casein tempera on hardboard
Dimensions 17-7/8 x 12 in.
Repository Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA (United States)
Source Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman series of 1938-40. Ellen Hawkins Wheat. Hampton University Museum and University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1991.
Work ID 24548
Rights In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
ARK ark:/87278/s6w13ddd
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 1369276
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6w13ddd
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