User:Jacqke/Banjo origins
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- 1707, Jamaica or Caribbean Islands. "Strum strumps". Notebook of Hans Sloan
- Banjo collected by John Gabriel Stedman in Surinam circa 1770-1777.
- Image of a Creole bania from the pre-1800 book Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Suriname by Captain John Gabriel Stedman
- 1780s, South Carolina. By John Rose.
- Banjo or string instrument from Latrobe's journal, February 1819
- Circa 1840. Gourd banjo neck made by William Esperance Boucher, Jr, attached by someone to old gourd banjo body. Boucher didn't sell these.
- 1845. Banjo made by William Esperance Boucher, Jr. This is the banjo which was involved with the rise of the minstrel tradition.
- Another view of a Bourcher banjo. Circa 1845.
- 1856, William Sidney Mount, The Banjo Player
- 1865. Young black woman with banjo.
- 1860-1865 Banjo
- 1878. Thomas Eakins, American Realism painter. Taught Henry Ossawa Tanner before Tanner went to Europe.
- Circa 1880, Charles Ethan Porter. Produced by African American artist.
- 1881. Léon Delachaux, Swiss painter, The Banjo Player
- Untitled painting from 1882 by Thomas Hovenden showing a man playing a banjo. Appears to be "Sam", the same man in another of Hovenden's paintings.
- 1893, Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson. Produced by African American artist.
- No date. Two Musicians, by Robert Lee MacCameron (1866-1912). He was in Paris when Tanner was, studying under Jean Leon Gerome[1] (like Tanner)
- John Eastman, image discussed by Kristine R. Gaddy in Well of Souls
- 1870. Song of Mary Blane by Frank Buchser, Swiss painter.
- Ravens or crows in imitation of African American string band, includes tanbourine, bass, banjo, drum, bones.
- Banjo in Royal Museum for Central Africa, purchased from the Bana Lupemba Orchestra.
- Banjo played by former slave, Henry Dobson, circa 1878.
- 1929. The Banjo Player by Hale Woodruff, African American artist.