"Negro Funeral"

inscription:

Recto, lower center, graphite: "Negro funeral"

description:

Sketch of crowd in distance gathered around a wagon to the left with two men in the drivers' seats.

significance note:

Sketchbook includes some thirty extremely rare images of black Americans prior to the Civil War. George Fuller travelled to Alabama in 1856 and again in 1857-1858.

references:

Sketchbook was exhibited at Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art, 1995. Reproduced in "Ceux de Nigger Rock" by Roland Viau, Libre Expression (Quebecor Media), Quebec, Canada, 2003.

signature:

Sketchbook frontispiece, "G. Fuller/ Mobile Ala/ Feb 4/ 56"

keywords:

African American
Art
Customs, Manners, Morals
Death
Religion
Rituals