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- Title:
- The Barbadoes Mulatto Girl
- Additional Title(s):
The Barbados Mulatto Girl
Barbadoes Mulatto- Date:
- 1779
- Materials & Techniques:
- Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 9/16 x 12 5/8 inches (49.7 x 32 cm), Plate: 12 5/16 x 9 5/16 inches (31.3 x 23.7 cm), Image: 8 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches (22.3 x 17.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower center: [coat of arms] | "THE BARBADOES MULATTO GIRL | This Plate is Dedicated to John Geo,, Felton Esqr,, | by his most Obliged and devoted Servt,, A,, Brunias. | London, Pubd,, as the Act directs, July 1st, 1779, by the Proprietor, N67, Broad Street, Soho."; lower right: "A,, Brunias pinxt,, et sculpt,,"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11131
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- barefoot | baskets | Caribbean | cloth | dress | earrings | food | fruit | genre subject | gesture | girl | gown | house | jewelry | landscape | natives | necklace | nude | palm trees | path | pointing | shirt | star | stripes | trousers | turbans | veil | women
- Associated Places:
- Barbados | North and Central America
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:30565
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Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018, p. 224, fig. 62, NJ18.B84652 B34 2018 (YCBA) [YCBA]
David Bindman, The Image of the Black in Western Art : From the " Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, , vol. 3, part 3, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010, pp. 274-75, fig. 265, N8217.B535 I42 2010+ (YCBA) Citations are to Vol. 3, Part 3 [YCBA]