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Subject: Jodensavanne

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Vue de Savanah-le Juif; Vue du Mont-Parnasse ou du Mont-Bleu: Copper Engraving from Stedman's Voyage à SurinamVue de Savanah-le Juif; Vue du Mont-Parnasse ou du Mont-Bleu: Copper Engraving from Stedman's Voyage à Surinam

Copper engraving depicting the Jodensavanne (Jewish Savanna) in Suriname. Plate XXXIX from John Gabriel Stedman's *Voyage à Surinam, et dans l'intérieur de la Guyane* (Buisson, Paris, 1799). The engraving, measuring 18.5 cm by 13.5 cm on a sheet of handmade paper (approx. 26 x 19 cm), is one of the earliest printed depictions of a Jewish colony in the New World. It shows the landscape and possibly some buildings of the Jodensavanne settlement.

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