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- Title:
A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women of Color
- Former Title(s):
A West Indian Flower Girl [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1769
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (31.8 x 24.8 cm), Frame: 17 1/8 × 14 3/8 × 2 1/4 inches (43.5 × 36.5 × 5.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.75
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.75FR
- Subject Terms:
- boys | buildings | city | costume | Creole | flower (plant) | flowers (plants) | freedom | genre subject | men | selling | shawls | skirts (garments) | street | women
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:585
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