Scipio Moorhead
| ụdịekere | nwoke  |
|---|---|
| mba o sị | Njikota Obodo Amerika |
| aha enyere | Scipio |
| aha ezinụlọ ya | Moorhead |
| ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 1750 |
| ọrụ ọ na-arụ | onye ese, engraver, omenkà, printmaker |
| agbụrụ | Ndi Afrika nke Amerika |
| nhazi nke ọha | enslaved person |
| Ọrụ ama ama | Phillis Wheatley |
| Nwere ọrụ na mkpokọta | Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery |
| ikike nwebiisinka dị ka onye okike | copyrights on works have expired |
Scipio Moorhead (na-arụ ọrụ c. 1773-mgbe 1775) bụ onye na-ese ihe n'ohu Africa-America nké bi na Boston, Massachusetts. A maara Moorhead site na uri nke onye Africa-America na-ede uri nke oge a bụ Phillis Wheatley, nke a raara nye "Nye S. M. ónyé na-eto eto African Painter, na ịhụ ọrụ ya", nke e bipụtara na Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. A mụtara áhà ya zuru ezu site na ógè marginalia.
Moorhead bụ ohu nkè Reverend John Moorhead nke Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Ọ bụ nwunye ónyé ụkọchukwu Sarah Moorhead, onye bụ onye nkụzi nka, kụziiri ya nkà ya maka ise ihe.[2] Ọ bụ ezie na ọ bụ ohu, Scipio Moorhead nwere ọtụtụ ikike nke ndị ọrụ nweere onwe ha. Enweghị ọrụ mbụ nke Scipio ka dị, mana ọ nwere ike ịbụ ónyé a kpọtụrụ aha na mgbasa ozi Boston News-Letter na Jenụwarị 7, 1773, nke kwuru banyere "onye na-ese ihe ojii... Onye isi ojii nwere ọgụgụ isi pụrụ iche. "[3]
E rere Scipio na Jenụwarị 1775 dị ka akụkụ nke ire ala. Ebe a na-akpọsa maka ire ahịa ohu, n'akụkụ osisi Liberty, bụ nke ndị na-eme ngagharị iwe na narị afọ nke iri na itoolu mere mkpesa màkà iwepụ ohu. N'afọ 1780, ndị ohu nọ na Massachusetts gbara akwụkwọ maka nnwere onwe nke dugara na mwepụ zuru oke, mana a maghị ma a tọhapụrụ Scipio, ébé ọ bụ na edere ónyé zụrụ ya na enweghị ihe ndekọ nke ebe ọ nọ mgbè afọ 1775 gasịrị.[4]
Edensibia
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ Scipio Moorhead in Bénézit
- ↑ Appiah (1999). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. U.S: Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 0-465-00071-1.
- ↑ Lewis (1999). American Characters. Yale University: Yale University. ISBN 0-300-07895-1.
- ↑ Slauter, Eric. Looking for Scipio Moorhead : an "African painter" in revolutionary North America in Lugo-Ortiz (2013). Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107004399. p. 89-116