File:Emma Soyer (Emma Jones) Two Black Children.jpg
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editEmma Soyer: Two Children with a Book | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q5362724 |
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Title |
Two Children with a Book label QS:Len,"Two Children with a Book" |
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Two young Black girls sit together with a Bible in their hands. The surrounding palm trees suggest they are in the Caribbean. This is a rare example of a 19th-century European portrait of Black sitters. The date of the painting coincided with the increased campaigning of Black Caribbean clergymen for an end to slavery in the British Empire. The girls’ smart dress and Bible reflect their self-sufficiency and the literacy in Caribbean religious communities. These factors were used to encourage the emancipation of enslaved people in the Caribbean.
Painting by the British artist Emma Soyer (née Emma Jones) painted for the abolitionist cause in nineteenth-century Britain. |
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Date |
1831 date QS:P571,+1831-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 917 mm (36.1 in) ; width: 716 mm (28.1 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+917U174789 dimensions QS:P2049,+716U174789 |
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Accession number |
L04612 (Tate) |
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Source/Photographer | Own image | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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