- Title:
Beauty's Tribute (Elizabeth Cooper)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Plate: 13 11/16 × 10 3/16 inches (34.8 × 25.8 cm), Sheet: 12 1/2 × 10 1/8 inches (31.8 × 25.7 cm), Image: 12 5/8 × 10 1/8 inches (32 × 25.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, below image, lower center: "Miss Cooper"
Lettered, below image, lower left: "Beauty commands submifsion as it's due, | Nor is't the slave alone that owns this true," | PLeilly Eques pinx :" ; lower right: "Much fairer Youths shall this just tribute pay, | None Fate deplore, but thankfully obey" | W Faithorne fee" ; lower center: "BEAUTY'S | TRIBUTE | Sold by W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.12.440
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boy | children | fountain | garden | genre subject | girl | grapes | house | landscape | portrait | servant | tree
- 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:23735
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
David Bindman, The Image of the Black in Western Art, From the " Age of Discovery " to the Age of Aboloition Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque , vol. 3, part 1, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; London, England, 2010, pp. 265, 266, pl. 149, N8232 I42 2010 vol.3,part 1 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) Citation is to Volume 3, Part 1 [YCBA]
Figures of Empire : Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2014, p. 41, V 2556 (YCBA) Also available online: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://britishart.yale.edu/sites/default/files/inline/Figures%20of%20Empire_booklet_FINAL.pdf [YCBA]
Catherine Molineux, Faces of Perfect Ebony, Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2012, pp. 32, 33, fig. 1.3, DA125.N4 M65 2012 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Slavery and Portraiture in 18th-century Atlantic Britain, [Website] , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2015, Available online https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/slavery-and-portraiture/ [Website]