Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)

after Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Title:
A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/8 x 15 3/4 inches (33.4 x 40 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, upper left: "3"; on back, lower left: "6 (encircled) | M1-1 | W"; on back, lower right: "(PM 6202)"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.1958
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | music | veils | jewelry | child | drum (musical instrument) | dancing | couple | patterns | trees | coconuts | women | stripes | sashes (costume accessories) | Caribbean | clapping | necklaces | shirts | singers | leisure | turbans | houses | plaid | natives | costume | parasol | dresses | village | buildings | West Indies | hats | dance | genre subject | singing | earrings | talking | barefoot | dancers | tambourine | bottle | performance
Associated Places:
Dominica | North and Central America
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2007, pp. 458-59, no. 164, N8243 S576 B37 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43126