ISBN9780300248067:f0440-01

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TitleCreole Negroes

Creator nameBelisario, Isaac Mendes

Creator nationality/cultureJamaican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1838

Object typePrint

MaterialsLithograph with watercolor

Dimensionsimage: 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm); sheet: 14 5/8 × 10 5/8 in. (37.1 × 27 cm)

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsCharacter sketchesEthnology in artBlack people in art

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4. Making a Black Folk: Belisario’s Sketches of Character

Kay Dian Kriz

Description: Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies,...

Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840

~The previous chapter examined how printed caricatures designed to solicit satiric laughter affected the formation of a set of fragmented types used to characterize the “slavish negro” in the years prior to the abolition of the slave trade. This kind of satire...

Author

Kay Dian Kriz

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.117-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00314.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22586&redirecttoanchor=40973

Chapter subject tags:West Indies, BritishBelisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849Caricatures and cartoons--British--19th centuryBlack people--Race identity--Caribbean AreaArt, JamaicanSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryFreed persons--Caribbean AreaAfricanization

Catalogue: Sketches of Character

Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

~~After his return to Kingston from London in the early 1830s, Isaac Mendes Belisario seems to have focused primarily on making commissioned...

Author

Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.425-461

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.026

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18648&redirecttoanchor=40973

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