File:‘A Negro Festival drawn from Nature in the Island of St Vincent’ RMG E9982 (cropped).tiff
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after Agostino Brunais |
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English: ‘A Negro Festival drawn from Nature in the Island of St Vincent’ Etching entitled 'A Negro Festival, drawn from Nature in the Island of St Vincent/ from an original picture by Agostino Brunais, in the possession of Sir William Young Bart F.R.S'. In this picture, the artist avoided depicting any sign of harsh plantation conditions. Instead, he has shown enslaved people at leisure and dancing. In the foreground, the display of abundant fruits suggests the fertility of the land. The image is a fiction, devised to appeal to the plantation owners who would read such books as Bryan Edwards’s ‘The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies’ (3rd edition, London, 1801), in which this engraving appeared. Brunias was a painter and draughtsman from Rome. In 1770 he accompanied Sir William Young (1749–1815), the first British governor of Dominica, to the West Indies. He concentrated on Caribbean subjects for wealthy planters. |
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| Date | circa 1800 | |||
| Dimensions | Sheet: 260 mm x 207 mm; Image: 203 mm x 170 mm | |||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/254623 | |||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | id number: ZBA2522 undefined: PR31 |
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| Collection | Fine art |
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