# Clearing the Forest, plate 6 from Customs and traditions of Negroes, volume 4 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil

- By: Isidore Laurent Deroy (after Johann Moritz Rugendas (German, 1802-1858); printed by Gottfried Engelmann (French, 1788-1839))
- Date: 1835
- Medium: Lithograph on ivory wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 21.7 × 28.6 cm (8 9/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36.2 × 56 cm (14 5/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Gift of Ralph Horween
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118110)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/762f276b-42f4-f3a9-6de1-d6041e2446d1/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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