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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Dabydeen, David
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Chambers, Eddie
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Childs, Adrienne L.
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Critchlow, Somaya, 1993–
1
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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Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
3
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Under Certain Circumstances
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21
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3
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2023-2024
2
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Books
18
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
3
Videos
2
Computer Files
1
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unknown
24
Period
21st century
16
20th century
5
18th century
2
19th century
1
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exhibition catalog
6
history
5
art
2
fobs (objects)
2
seals (artifacts)
2
catalog
1
catalogs (documents)
1
interview
1
rings (jewelry)
1
signet ring
1
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Black people in art.
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Black people in art -- Exhibitions.
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Slavery in art.
4
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.
3
Artists, Black.
3
Slave trade -- Great Britain.
3
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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African Americans in art -- Exhibitions.
2
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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Art.
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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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18th century
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19th century
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21st century
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17th century
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New York (State)
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Great Britain
6
England
4
America
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Europe
1
Great Britain America
1
New York (State)
1
New York (State) New York
1
Trinidad
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Trinidad and Tobago
1
United States
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West Indies, British
1
Westminster (London, England)
1
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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)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
1
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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
3
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
Ignatius Sancho
c1997
6
English, Darby, 1974–
Among others
[2019]
7
Childs, Adrienne L.
The black figure in the European imaginary
2017
8
Chambers, Eddie
Black artists in British art
2014
9
McCrea, Rosalie Smith
Antislavery and British painting of the Black, 1760-1841
2001
10
Eshun, Ekow
In the Black fantastic
[2022]
11
Lubaina Himid
2019
12
Figures of empire
2014
13
Unnamed figures
2023
14
Dabydeen, David
Hogarth's Blacks
1987
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Wahab, Amar
Colonial inventions
2010
16
Visualizing slavery & British culture in the eighteenth century
2014
17
Dabydeen, David
Hogarth's Blacks
1985
18
The image of the Black in Western art
2010-2014
19
Picturing blackness in British art, 1700s-1990s
©1995
20
Odumosu, Temi
Africans in English caricature, 1769-1819
[2017]
21
Balthazar
[2023]
22
Kriz, Kay Dian, 1945–
Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement
c2008
23
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, born 1977
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
[2023]
24
Critchlow, Somaya, 1993–
Somaya Critchlow
2021