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- Title:
Free Natives of Dominica
- Additional Title(s):
Free Natives of Domenica
- Date:
- 1780
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (30.2 × 20.9 cm), Image: 8 13/16 × 6 15/16 inches (22.4 × 17.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in brown ink, lower center: [Young coat of arms, "PRESS THROUGH" lettered within banner] | "FREE NATIVES OF DOMINICA. | This Plate is Dedicated to Sir Wm,, Young, Bart,, | by his most Obliged and devoted Servt,, | A,, Brunias. | London, Pubd,, as the Act directs, Febry,, 1, 1780, by the Proprietor, N,,67, 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:
- B1981.25.1955
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bonnets (hats) | bows (costume accessories) | breeches (trousers) | cane | cap (headgear) | Caribbean | chokers | coat | costume | dresses | earrings | flounces | genre subject | gesture | gowns | handkerchiefs | hats | jewelry | lace | landscape | man | mountain | natives | palm trees | patterns (design elements) | ruffles | shrubs | staff (walking stick) | stripes | trees | tricorne | turbans | West Indies | women
- Associated Places:
- Dominica | North and Central America
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43123
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