Augustin Brunias (c.1730-1796)

A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica... ; A Cudgelling Match between English and French Negroes in the Island of Dominica; Free Natives of Dominica; The Barbadoes Mulatto Girl; The West India Washer-Women; and The West India Flower Girl

細節
Augustin Brunias (c.1730-1796)
A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica... ; A Cudgelling Match between English and French Negroes in the Island of Dominica; Free Natives of Dominica; The Barbadoes Mulatto Girl; The West India Washer-Women; and The West India Flower Girl

handcoloured stipple engravings, the suite of six
two L. 9 x 12in. (27.8 x 32.4cm.)
four L. 8 x 7in. (22.2 x 17.8cm.) (6)

拍品專文

For the various editions of this suite of engravings, published in 1779, 1780 and 1810, see E.-T. Hamy, Alexander Brunias, Peintre Ethnographe de la fin du XVIII(e) Sicle, Courte Notice sur son Oeuvre, L'Anthropologie, I, 1890, pp.49-56. A further undated set of the plates, with titles in English and French, was published in Paris by Dupeuille.