Augustin Brunias (c. 1730-1796)

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Augustin Brunias (c. 1730-1796)

A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

stipple engraving, published London, 1779 (first edition)
P.12 x 14 7/8in. (30.4 x 37.7cm.)

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There are two later 'editions' of this engraving (a pendant to Brunias' 'Cudgelling Match in the Island of Dominica'), one engraved by Ruotte and published in Paris (nd) and the other published by
T. Palser, London in 1810 (see E.-T.Hamy, Alexandre Brunias, Peintre Ethnographe de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Courte Notice sur son Oeuvre, L'Anthropologie, I, 1890, pp. 49-56)

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