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Brunias was born in Rome in 1730. Whilst working in England for the architect Robert Adam as a draughtsman and decorative artist, Brunias met William Young who, in 1764, was nominated the first Commissioner and Receiver for sale of lands in the ceded (from France) West Indies islands of Dominica, St Vincent, Grenada and Tobago. Brunias agreed to accompany Young to the West Indies as his personal artist.\r\n\r\nBrunias spent seven years in the West Indies creating romantic genre scenes of markets, village and harbour scenes. Brunias’s treatment of his human subjects reflects that of artists recording natural history specimens: every aspect of dress and accessory is captured in exhaustive detail yet the figures appear as ‘types’ rather than individuals. Dress is used as the marker of particular colonial identities encountered on the islands: Carib, Black Carib, mulatto (a now outdated term referring to a person of mixed black and white parentage), slave, freedman, and planter. Brunias’s romanticised images of island life, which denied the harsh realities of plantation slavery, were popular with members of the white plantocracy, both in the West Indies and in Britain. This image is an engraved copy by the French artist Louis Charles Ruotte.","physicalDescription":"Print depicts a group of women: a black woman in madras check headscarf and shawl with her back to the viewer, who holds a dish of flowers, a white woman in the centre and darker-skinned woman on the right who smells a flower. The latter two women wear elaborate headgear. To the left of the group, a black boy sits on a step.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Brunias, Agostino","id":"A6033"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"after"},{"name":{"text":"Ruotte, Louis Charles","id":"A17991"},"association":{"text":"engraver","id":"AAT25166"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Stipple engraving","categories":[{"text":"Black History","id":"THES48989"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Caribbean","id":"THES286921"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2007BM3203"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"O","shelf":"5","box":"A"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":"06/08/2024 CW removed because nothing overtly offensive identified. 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Jacques l'hopital No. 416 Gran Palais Royal au Pavillon.\r\n\r\nBottom left:\r\nA. Brunias pinxit","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered with title in English and French, a dedication to Sir Patrick Blake, Bart. And A."}],"objectHistory":"(Original Brunias painting (ca. 1769) now at the Yale Centre for British Art)\r\nAccession register entry: 14 January 1958, 21193-23053-1957, (Rpp 56/1603). Source: Worth Ltd. In Association with Paquin Ltd., 50, Grosvenor Street, London, W1.\r\nRuotte, Louis Charles (1754-p.1814)\r\nThe West India Flower Girl\r\nLettered with title in English and French, a dedication to Sir Patrick Blake, Bart. And A. Brunias pinxit. L.C. Routte direxit. A Paris, chez Depeuille rue St. Denis, la Boutique attenant St. Jacques, l'hopital, No. 416, & au Palais Royal, au Pavilion.\r\nStipple engraving. 12 ¼ x 9 3/8. Given by the House of Worth.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'The West India Flower Girl', by Ruotte after Agostino Brunias [Augustin Brunais]","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"Hats","id":"AAT46106"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.22397:72-1957"],"accessionNumberNum":"22397","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1957,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2006-08-24","availableToBook":false}}