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Fabrication de l'huile palme à Whydah, coate Oxidentale, Afrique

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Date

ca.1845

Description

The French artist Edouard Auguste Nousveaux visited Senegal in West Africa between 1842 and 1845. Upon his return to France, he exhibited a series of West African views at the Paris Salon in 1845-47. This watercolour shows the production of palm oil, which was one of the most important of the new ‘legitimate’ commodities exported from West Africa after the end of the slave trade. Palm oil had a range of industrial applications and was used in soap manufacture and later in the production of margarine.

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CC BY-NC-ND

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Location

Ouidah, Benin

Country

Benin

Medium

Watercolour