Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961, Barbadian, active in Canada
Title:
Petiveria aliacea (Mirtilla)
Date:
2011
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in white ink, lower left: "Petiveria aliacea (Mirtilla) 2/10"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Copyright Status:
© The Artist
Accession Number:
B2013.23.6
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
Creole | hair | flowers (plants) | botanical subject | abstract art | collar (neckwear) | plant | torture | slavery | woman | hairstyling
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)

Prospects of Empire : Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2014-11-17 - 2015-05-01)
Publications:
Prospects of Empire : slavery and ecology in eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain : an exhibition at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 20 October 2014 through May 1, 2015, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, 2015, pp. 10, 11-12, 20, no. 23, fig. 8, V 2578 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:67563