| Creator |
Ponce, Nicolas, 1746-1831 engraver. |
| Contributor |
Brunias, Agostino, artist. |
| Title |
[Plate from Nicolas Ponce's Receuil du vues des lieux principaux de la colonie francaise de Saint-Domingue] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Paris: s.n] |
| Publisher |
FRANCE. Paris. 1795 |
| Date |
[1795] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: engraving; overall 23 x 16 cm. (9 x 6.25 in), each roundel approx. 7 x 7 cm. (3 x 3 in) |
| Description |
Illustration after the romanticized paintings and drawings of artist Agostino Brunias (ca. 1730-1796) when he worked in the
British West Indian colonies, particularly Dominica. Brunias’s work was often copied and the West Indian island or community
depicted identified inaccurately. Moving clockwise from the top left, "Place et Fontaine Montarcher" shows a fountain and
a city square idenitifed as in Cap-Francois (now Cap Haitien) in Saint-Domingue (Haiti). "Fontaine D'Estaing" shows a fountain
in a city's port. Set on a street, "Costumes des Affranchies et des Esclaves des Colonies," shows differences in dress between
free residents and enslaved peoples. In this scene, an enslaved woman offers food on a platter to two "Affranchies." The plaid
cloth from which the enslaved women's shawl and head-dress are fashioned contrasts with the finery worn by the other two.
Again, the fourth engraving,"Costumes des Affranchies et des Esclaves des Colonies" highlights differences in dress, this
time in a landscape setting.
|
| Is part of |
Ponce, Nicolas, 1746-1831, Receuil du vues des lieux principaux de la colonie francaise de Saint-Domingue Paris: Chez Moreau
de Saint-Mery, en son domicile, rue Caumartin, no. 31. [Chez] Ponce, rue Saint-Hyacinthe, no. 19 [Chez] Phelipeau, rue Saint-Jacques,
près celle des Mathurins, no. 45, 1795.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Illustration in Nicolas Ponce's Receuil du vues des lieux principaux de la colonie francaise de Saint-Domingue (A Paris: Chez
Moreau de Saint-Mery, en son domicile, rue Caumartin, no. 31. [Chez] Ponce, rue Saint-Hyacinthe, no. 19. [Chez] Phelipeau,
rue Saint-Jacques, près celle des Mathurins, no. 45., 1795), plate number 25, n.p.
|
|
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life. |
| Subject |
Slaves -- Clothing & dress -- Haiti. |
|
Blacks -- Clothing & dress -- Haiti. |
| Geographic subject |
Haiti -- Pictorial works -- 18th century. |
|
West Indies -- Pictorial works -- 18th century. |
| Genre |
Engravings -- 1790-1800. |
|
Book illustrations -- 1790-1800. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | **Am 1795 Ponce 6368.F no 25 |
| Accession number |
6368.F |
