Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)after Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Title:
A Cudgelling Match between English and French Negroes in the Island of Dominica
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 13 7/8 inches (29.5 × 35.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "(PM 6206)"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.1957
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
West Indies | landscape | genre subject | clubs (weapons) | cudgels | hut | costume | shirts | jewelry | turbans | necklace | trees | sashes (costume accessories) | patterns (design elements) | stripes | men | boys | child | Caribbean | French | audience | women | thatching | torn | fighting | viewers | thatched roof | natives
Associated Places:
North and Central America | Dominica
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Caribbean - Crossroads of the World (El Museo del Barrio, 2012-06-12 - 2013-01-06)The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
Publications:
Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018, p. 127, fig. 34, NJ18.B84652 B34 2018 (YCBA)Timothy J. Barringer, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2007, p. 30, fig. 2.3, N8243 S576 B37 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sarah Murden, 18th Century Cudgelling Matches, , All Things Georgian, Januray 18, 2018, https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/18th-century-cudgelling-matches/