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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dabydeen, David
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Chambers, Eddie
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Childs, Adrienne L.
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Critchlow, Somaya, 1993–
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English, Darby, 1974–
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Eshun, Ekow
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Kriz, Kay Dian, 1945–
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McCrea, Rosalie Smith
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Odumosu, Temi
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Wahab, Amar
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Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, born 1977
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Books
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Videos
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unknown
24
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21st century
16
20th century
5
18th century
2
19th century
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exhibition catalog
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history
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art
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fobs (objects)
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seals (artifacts)
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catalogs (documents)
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interview
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rings (jewelry)
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signet ring
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Black people in art.
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Black people in art -- Exhibitions.
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Slavery in art.
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African American artists.
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African Americans in art.
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain.
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Art and race.
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Artists, Black.
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Slave trade -- Great Britain.
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Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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African Americans in art -- Exhibitions.
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Africans in art.
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Art and society.
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Art, British -- 18th century.
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Art, British -- 19th century.
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Art, British.
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Black people in art
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Blacks in art.
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Portraits -- England -- 18th century.
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New York (State)
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Great Britain
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England
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America
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Europe
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Great Britain America
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New York (State)
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New York (State) New York
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Westminster (London, England)
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
2
Balthazar (Biblical figure)
1
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret, 1807–1834
1
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
1
Critchlow, Somaya, 1993–
1
Hackwood, William, 1757–1839
1
Himid, Lubaina, 1954–
1
Sancho, Ignatius, 1729–1780
1
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, born 1977
1
Exhibition History
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
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English
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Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
not before 1787
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Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
not before 1787
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Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a woman and a sister?"
circa 1835
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The Image of the Black in Western art
c1976-1989
5
Childs, Adrienne L.
The black figure in the European imaginary
2017
6
Figures of empire
2014
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Lubaina Himid
2019
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Unnamed figures
2023
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Dabydeen, David
Hogarth's Blacks
1987
10
Eshun, Ekow
In the Black fantastic
[2022]
11
English, Darby, 1974–
Among others
[2019]
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Ignatius Sancho
c1997
13
Chambers, Eddie
Black artists in British art
2014
14
McCrea, Rosalie Smith
Antislavery and British painting of the Black, 1760-1841
2001
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Visualizing slavery & British culture in the eighteenth century
2014
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Wahab, Amar
Colonial inventions
2010
17
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, born 1977
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
[2023]
18
Odumosu, Temi
Africans in English caricature, 1769-1819
[2017]
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Dabydeen, David
Hogarth's Blacks
1985
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The image of the Black in Western art
2010-2014
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Kriz, Kay Dian, 1945–
Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement
c2008
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Picturing blackness in British art, 1700s-1990s
©1995
23
Balthazar
[2023]
24
Critchlow, Somaya, 1993–
Somaya Critchlow
2021