Negroes fighting, Brazil

Earle, Augustus (1793-1838)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1822
Height:
16.5 cm  (6 1/2 in.)
Width:
25.1 cm  (9 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
watercolor / aquarelle on paper
Place of creation:
Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)

Additional titles

Negros lutando capoeira, Brasil
Capoeira scene, Brazil

    Item location

  • National Library of Australia
    Rex Nan Kivell Collection[Museum inv. no.: NK12/103]

Description

Although the word "fighting" is in the artist's title, the men's body movements are those of Capoeira. Several onlookers are shown, including a woman carrying an infant, and a white policeman/soldier approaching the scene; the seated man is playing a drum, the source of music for this performance. (Description from website: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.--see image link below)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Drum [2585]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
National Library of Australia image

Notes

Augustus Earle, an English painter, lived in Rio from early 1820 to early 1824, with occasional trips to Chile and Peru during that period.

RIdIM record id

3247