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ZANZIBAR An album of views, and portraits of the inhabitants, of Zanzibar, by Clelia Lega Weeks, [1860s]; together with another album of approximately 54 watercolour or ink drawings [see footnote] by Weeks (2)
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ZANZIBAR
An album of views, and portraits of the inhabitants, of Zanzibar, by Clelia Lega Weeks, approximately 96 images (20 colour watercolours; others ink, or brown wash), mounted on brown paper sheets, between one and 3 images per page (recto only, mostly tipped in at corners), some captioned on the image, others on the verso in ink or pencil, a few dated (1865) on image, largest (2) 185 x 275mm., others c.150 x 200mm. or smaller, no binding, small folio, [1860s]; together with another album of approximately 54 watercolour or ink drawings [see footnote] by Weeks (2)
Footnotes
A good album of watercolour, ink and wash views of Zanzibar and its Muslim, Hindu and Banyan inhabitants executed by Clelia Lega Weeks (1841-1924) during a two month stay on the island in September-October 1865. Clelia accompanied her husband, Ansel Weeks, captain of an American trading ship. Images include 2 large views from the sea towards land ("Shangany, Zanzibar... Oct. 1865"; "Palace of the old King - Sayd Ben Soultan Ben-Iman. Mtony, Zanzibar", and several smaller views of the same); views of the house of Sillaman ben Abdulla at Kinain, the exterior and interior of the American Consulate, a large interior scene of "Harem in the house of Sillamen..., secretary of the King of Zanzibar", street scene in Zanzibar town, the slave market ("...two boys for five dollars a piece"); portrait studies of the sister of the King of Zanzibar's secretary reading an Arabic manuscript, Taria Tophan (a Hindu merchant) and his son, a Banyan merchant, Salie Ben Bambamba (of Comoro Island) feeding a gazelle rose petals, and the King's sister. Other scenes include "a canoe load of monkeys", "a native dance", a water-bearer, groups of local artifacts (Arab shield, bangles, comb, etc.) and images of Clelia's two year old daughter Ethel being introduced to a Hindoo child, engaging with locals, on deck of the ship and playing with a lamb given to her by the Sultan of Zanzibar. Some are variants (plain ink, and worked up with washes) of the same view. Several of the illustrations were reproduced in an article ("Zanzibar") describing the Weeks' stay on the island printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1869, pp.306-318. Three copies of this are included with the lot, one with corrections in the author's hand.
The second album of images by Clelia Weeks includes three views of the interior of a house at Mattapoisett, Massachusetts (where Clelia's father-in-law lived), of Buenos Aires, the island of Faial (Azores) and several inhabitants, Waterloo (5, including a panorama of Genappe road, and the farm at La Haye Sainte), the Italian Hospital in London, and English cottages.