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• Author/Creator:Ruotte, Louis Charles, 1754-1806, printmaker.
  
• Title:Danse des Negres dans L'Isle de St. Dominique [graphic] = A Negroes dance in the Island of St. Dominica / A. Brunias pinx. ; L.C. Ruotte direx.
  
• Publication:Se vend a Paris : Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, et au Palais Royal au Pavillon près le bassin, [approximately 1778]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : stipple engraving, à la poupée ; sheet 29 x 36 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 778.00.00.72+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Editio Altera Rare Books & Manuscripts; February 2023.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Titles engraved below image, in French and English.
  Approximate date of publication from dealer's description. A slightly later date in the 1780s is suggested by the active dates and street address information listed for the publisher Depeuille in the British Museum online catalogue.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  Dedication engraved beneath titles: ... is humbly dedicated to the Honble. Charles O'Hara, Brigadier General of His Majesty's Army in America ... by his most obedt. & dutiful servt., A. Brunias.
  
• Summary:A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse.
  
• Variant and related titles:Negroes dance in the Island of St. Dominica
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Black people--Haiti.
  Dance.
  Indigenous peoples--Haiti.
  Musical instruments.
  
• Genre/Form:Stipple engravings--France--Paris--1778.
  A la poupée prints--France--Paris--1778.
  
• Also listed under:Brunias, Agostino, 1730-1796, artist.
  Depeuille, François Jules Gabriel, active 1783-1801, publisher.