SKU: RSIL20087

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.

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Run away from the subscriber the 17th instant, a Negro Wench named Silva, about 24 years of age, smallish size, thick and well made, had on and took with her a brown skirt and striped short gown. Whoever will take up and secure said wench and give information to the subscriber, shall have Five dollars reward and charges paid by,
Elijah Hensdale
Farmington, June 19, 1784

NB Said Wench before she runaway threw a stone and fractured the skull of her master and otherwise much wounded him.

Title: Runaway: Silva 1784
Artist: Cora Marshall
Size: 18" x 24"
Media: Giclee
Edition: 100