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List of illustrations

  • Portrait of Fath Khan, son of Malik Ambar
  • The Captive Slave
  • Bust of an African Woman
  • Prince Dèjatch Alámayou and Captain Speedy
  • Uncle Tom and Little Eva
  • The Wake
  • Koo-Koo, or Actor-Boy
  • Portrait of Ignatius Sancho
  • A View in the Island of Jamaica of the Spring-head of Roaring River
  • Scene with Dancing in the West Indies
  • The Voyage of the Sable Venus
  • Buste d'une négresse (fragment)
  • Watson and the Shark
  • Watson and the Shark, detail
  • The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781
  • The Death of Major Peirson 6 January 1781, detail
  • The Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775
  • Lieutenant Thomas Grosvenor and His Negro Servant
  • George Washington and William Lee
  • The Washington Family
  • Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences (Emancipation of the Blacks)
  • Marché d'esclaves
  • I am man and nothing that concerns man is foreign to me (Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto)
  • Ce qui sert à vos plaisirs est mouillé de nos larmes
  • Allegory of Nature suckling two infants, one black, one white
  • Esclaves conduits par des marchands
  • Death of Virginia
  • Erstlingsbild (The First Fruits)
  • Getaufte Neger, die nach der Prosternation, oder dem Anbelen durch die Arbeiter von ihrer Nation ausgerichtet und gerußt Werden
  • Antislavery Medallion
  • Description of a Slave Ship
  • The Slave Trade
  • Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves, detail
  • European Ship Wrecked on the Coast of Africa, known as African Hospitality, detail
  • African Hospitality
  • Abolition of the Slave Trade, or The Man the Master
  • Portrait of a Swedish Gentleman [Carl Bernhard Wadström] Instructing a Negro Prince [Peter Panah]
  • Homage to Benjamin Franklin
  • Medal commemorating the abolition of the slave trade to the Danish West Indies, obverse
  • Medal commemorating the abolition of the slave trade to the Danish West Indies, reverse
  • Be Free and Citizens (Soyez Libres et Citoyens)
  • Allegory of Commerce
  • Moi libre aussi (man)
  • Moi libre aussi (woman)
  • Moi égale à toi. Moi libre aussi
  • Die Empörung der Neger/La Revolte des Nègres
  • From Different Parents, Different Climes We Came…
  • Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave
  • A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to the Gallows
  • The Liboya Serpant Seizing Its Prey
  • Study for the lost painting The Liboya Serpent Seizing Its Prey: Man Struggling with a Boa Constrictor
  • The Negro Revenged
  • Revenge Taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties Practised on Them by the French
  • The Maroons in Ambush on the Dromilly Estate
  • Britain granting liberty to four black slaves
  • Funerary monument of Charles James Fox
  • Funerary monument of Charles James Fox, detail
  • Portrait of John Eardley-Wilmot, Esq., 1812
  • Funerary bust of Zachary Macaulay
  • Capture of slaves in Africa
  • Model for the relief on the tomb of General Jacques-Nicolas Gobert: General Gobert suppressing the revolt at Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) in 1802
  • Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley
  • Toussaint Louverture, Général en chef à St. Domingue
  • E. V. Mentor … Adjutant Général, Député de Saint-Domingue au Conseil des Cinq-Cents
  • Henri Christophe, King of Haiti
  • Portrait of Absalom Jones
  • Portrait of Yarrow Mamout
  • Portrait of Citizen Jonathas Granville
  • Portrait of Eustache
  • Head of a Negro in the Character of Othello
  • Portrait of Ira Aldridge in the Role of Othello
  • The Raft of the Medusa
  • Preliminary drawing for Slave Trade
  • Five studies of a black man for The Raft of the Medusa
  • Study for the "Raft of the Medusa"
  • The Raft of the Medusa, detail
  • Study for "Slave Trade"
  • Notre Père qui êtes aux ciel
  • Saint Benoît le Maure
  • Dieu ne fait acception de personne
  • The Booroom Slave
  • Ourika
  • Greeks on the Ruins of Missolonghi
  • Le Génie de la France anime les Arts, secoure l'Humanité, detail
  • Le vieil Orphanée africain
  • Quête pour l'entretien de l'église du Rosario
  • Espèce de châtiment qui s'exécute dans les divserses grandes places de la ville
  • Punitions publiques sur la place Ste Anne
  • Punishing Negroes at Cathabouco [Calabouco], Rio de Janeiro
  • Black Punishment in Rio [de] Janeiro
  • Nègres à fond de calle
  • The Interior of a Brazilian Rancho in the Province of Santo Paulo, with a Travelling Merchant, His Slaves, Merchandise, etc.
  • Medal commemorating the abolition of slavery in British colonies, 1 August 1834 (obverse)
  • To the Friends of Negro Emancipation
  • The Happy Free Labourers of England/The Wretched Slaves in the West Indies
  • The Slave Trade (Slaves on the West Coast of Africa)
  • Drawing for a proposed sculpture on the abolition of the slave trade
  • Châtiment des quatre piquets dans les colonies
  • Esclave nègre après la bastonnade
  • La Vengeance
  • La Vengeance, detail
  • Portrait of Frederick Douglass
  • Portrait of Cinque
  • Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
  • Model for a relief on the Gutenberg Monument: Les bienfaits de l'imprimerie en Afrique
  • The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
  • The Spirit of Justice
  • La Charité
  • Sketch for the painting "L'esclavage affranchi", exhibited in Paris, Salon, 1849, no. 923 (known today as "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité)
  • Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, April 27, 1848
  • Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, April 27, 1848, detail
  • South African Sketches. II: The Revd. Mr. Moffat Preaching to the Bechuana
  • Jan Tzatzoe, Andries Stoffles, the Revd. Dr. Philip & Revd. Messrs. Read Senr. & Jr., Speakers at the London Missionary Society, 10 August 1836
  • Ordination de trois jeunes Africains du Sénégal
  • Portrait of Abbé Moussa
  • Cardinal de Cheverus ministering to a black man in Boston
  • The Battle of the Six on the Island of Lampedusa
  • The Battle of the Six on the Island of Lampedusa, detail
  • Adoration of the Magi, central portion
  • Adoration of the Magi
  • Le Christ consolateur
  • Triptych: Vox Dei
  • L'égalité des hommes devant Dieu
  • Study for L'égalité des hommes devant Dieu
  • Baptism of the Eunuch, detail
  • Baptism of the Eunuch
  • Study for Baptism of the Eunich
  • B. Petrus Claver Soc. Jesus
  • Die Mohrentaufe
  • Baptism
  • Watch Meeting Dec. 31st 1862 (Waiting for the Hour)
  • George Shelby Giving Liberty to His Slaves
  • The Auction Sale
  • Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia
  • The Slave Auction
  • Slave Auction
  • Scipio Hunted, 'as Men Hunt a Deer'
  • The Fugitive Slave
  • Hunted Slaves
  • The Slave Hunt or Slaves Escaping Through the Swamp
  • A Plantation Burial
  • Negro Life at the South
  • The Freedom Ring
  • A Southern Cornfield, Nashvill, Tenn.
  • A Ride for Liberty—The Fugitive Slaves
  • The Freedman
  • The Wounded Scout/A Friend in the Swamp
  • The Bright Side
  • Near Andersonville
  • The Questioner of the Sphinx
  • Jane Jackson, Formerly a Slave
  • The Cumaean Sibyl
  • Old Virginia Home
  • The Higher Law
  • American Citizens (To the Polls)
  • This Is a White Man's Government
  • On to Liberty
  • The Volunteer's Return
  • The Song of Mary Blane
  • Patience on a Monument
  • Design for the Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln
  • Study for or reduced copy of a lost painting by Pauwels and Paul Thurmann: Glorification of the American Union
  • French-Swiss Lincoln medal, obverse with portrait of Abraham Lincoln
  • French-Swiss Lincoln medal, reverse, monument dedicated to Lincoln
  • Forever Free
  • Aimez-vous les uns les autres ou Fraternité
  • John Brown's Blessing
  • Last Sale of Slaves in St. Louis
  • The Fugitive's Story
  • The Statue of 'The Freed Slave' [by Francesco Pezzicar] in Memorial Hall
  • L'emancipazione dei negri
  • Les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphère (original model for the Fontaine de l'Observatoire, Jardins du Luxembourg, Paris), detail
  • Les qautre parties du monde soutenant la sphère
  • Allegory of Africa. Detail of the Albert Memorial
  • Allegory of Africa, detail
  • Emancipation (Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln)
  • Lincoln Monument
  • Model for the monument to Victor Schoelcher erected in Cayenne, Guiana
  • Model for the monument to Victor Schoelcher erected in Cayenne, Guiana, detail
  • Schoelcher Monument
  • Frederick Douglass Monument
  • Henry Ward Beecher Monument
  • Henry Ward Beecher Monument, detail
  • Frederick Douglass Monument, detail
  • Shaw Memorial
  • Shaw Memorial, detail
  • Head of a black soldier for the Shaw Memorial
  • Captain Speke and Captain Grant with Timbo, a Young Native from the Country of the Upper Nile
  • David Livingstone sitting with some Africans. Relief on the base of the Livingstone Monument
  • The Secret of England's Greatness (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor)
  • Study for a medal commemorating the war against the Asante (1873–1874)
  • The Ashantee Medal commemorating the victory over the Asante in the Second Ashantee War of 1873–1874 (reverse)
  • The Triumph of the Holy Cross
  • Defending the Flag: Lieutenants Melvill VC and Coghill VC Saving the Colors at Isandhlwana
  • The Last Stand at Isandhlwana
  • The Death of the Prince Imperial
  • The Death of General Charles Gordon, Khartoum, 26 January 1885
  • Battle of Dogali (Ethiopia)
  • Sketch for the tapestry La conquête pacifique de l'Afrique, ou l'Expansion coloniale de la France au centre du continent noir
  • One of a series of eight monumental embroideries: Slavery
  • One of a series of eight monumental embroideries: Liberty
  • The Empress
  • One of eighteen "British Empire Panels" designed for the House of Lords, Royal Gallery: African peoples, flora, fauna, and products
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The Image of the Black in Western Art was conceived by the late Dominique Schlumberger de Menil (1908–1997) and her husband, John (1904–1973), fifty years ago. The de Menils were known internationally for their patronage of artists such as René Magritte and Max Ernst as early as the 1930s, and eventually for the size and range of their art collection. Their passion for...
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This volume in two parts in the series The Image of the Black in Western Art was originally written entirely by one scholar, the distinguished British art historian Hugh Honour (born 1927). It...
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During the closing decades of the eighteenth century, years of revolutionary convulsions on both sides of the Atlantic, not only in politics but in all walks of life and thought and art as well, the ways in which blacks were regarded underwent profound and far-reaching changes ...
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A black silhouetted against the sky has a place of key importance in Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, one of the greatest and most enigmatic paintings of the early nineteenth century ...
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There are many and obvious similarities between European and American, especially British and North American, literary and visual images of blacks. Ever since the eighteenth century there had been a transatlantic interchange of writings about slavery ...
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This volume is devoted to images of blacks in Western art from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, approximately one hundred fifty years of continuity and radical change in ideas about both blacks and art. It begins in the period of the Enlightenment, that supremely optimistic and self-confident expression of European civilization, and of the American Revolution, with its...
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The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators
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