Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Title:
Market Day, Roseau, Dominica
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 x 18 1/4 inches (35.6 x 46.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.77
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
town | street | genre subject | toy | produce stands | tent | chair | table | costume | selling | women | men | Creole | children | boy | girl | linen (material) | drums (membranophones) | canopy | stalls | building | merchants | market (event)
Associated Places:
Roseau | Dominica | Lesser Antilles | West Indies
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
Publications:
Mia L. Bagneris, Agostino Brunias : Capturing the Carribean [sic] (c. 1770-1800), , Robilant + Voena, London, UK, 2010, pp. 10.12, fig. 4, NJ18 B84652 +B34 2010 Oversize (YCBA)

Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean : Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018, p. 197, fig. 52, NJ18.B84652 B34 2018 (YCBA)

David Bindman, The History of British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 106 (vol. 2), N6761 +H57 2008 Oversize (YCBA)

Douglas Catterall, Women in port, gendering communities, economies, and social networks in Atlantic port cities, 1500-1800 , Brill, Leiden, 2012, front cover, HQ1818.85 .W6596X 2012 (LC) (SML)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 44-45, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

John Crowley, Imperial landscapes, Britains's global visual culture 1745-1820 , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 118, fig. 140, N8214.5 G7 C76 2011 + (YCBA)

Dror Wharman, Making of the Modern Self : Identity and English Culture in the Eighteenth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004, pp. 214-15, fig.32, DA485 .W34 2004 (YCBA)

Elisabeth Fairman, Wilde Americk : Discovery and Exploration of the New World, , New Haven, 2001, p.15, V 0857 (YCBA)

Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 38, N8214.5.W38 K75 2008 (LC) (YCBA)

Felicity Nussbaum, The Global Eighteenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2003, pp. 204-206, fig.13.6, D287 G56 2003 (YCBA)

Leonora Sansay, Secret History, or, The Horrors of St. Domingo, Broadview Press, Peterborough, ON, 2007, ??, PS2769 .S43x 2007 (SML)

Beth Fowkes Tobin, Colonizing nature, the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 , Academy, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2005, ??, PR129 T76 T63 2005 (YCBA) Also available online - Project Muse (ORBIS)

Beth Fowkes Tobin, Picturing Imperial Power : Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth Century British Painting, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1999, p. 160, ND466 759 1999 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:587