SKU: RJo20081

Runaway! Going, Going, Gone.
This mixed media painting series, Runaway: Going, Going, Gone, is inspired by a discovery of "Wanted" advertisements from the early 1700s and 1800s. These ads describe runaway enslaved people of African descent in, sometimes minute, details. Descriptions of hair color and styles, clothes, complexion, scars, size, and demeanor conjure vivid images in a real and tangible ways.

Advertisement
Run-away from the subscriber the 4th inst. A Mulatto Boy named JOHN, 16 years old, short of his age and stocky; took with him 5 shirts, one ruffled on the bosom, one white silk and two bandanna handkerchiefs, two white and two striped linen do. one cravat three pair stockings, 3 jackets one of which is scarlet broadcloth two pair tow cloth overhalls two do. [overhalls] nankeen one do. [overhalls] dark broadcloth one green broadcloth short coat, one elastic great coat one pair new shoes one new round hat a pair boots a short lead colour'd jacket and a pair dark homemade overhalls.

Whoever will take up said boy and return him, with the cloathing, or give information where he is kept, shall have a generous reward, or one farthing reward for said boy without the cloathing. All persons are forbid harboring or keeping said boy on penalty of the law.
Raphel Fontienne. Hartford, March 9 1796

Title: Runaway: John(1796)
Artist: Cora Marshall
Size: 18" x 24"
Media: Giclee
Edition: 100