The negro banjo player

Calyo, Nicolino (1799-1884)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1840

Height:

29.2 cm  (11 1/2 in.)

Width:

24.1 cm  (9 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor

Description

Figure of a Black man wearing an Italian- gondolier-style hat, dancing, and playing a banjo.

Iconclass

48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)
32B3211
American negroes
48C865
vaudeville, variety show

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Banjo [3226]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Wilson, William. "‘Facing History’: Insights into racism: Exhibit on the image of blacks in American art throws critics into arguments over the place of ideology in curatorship", Los Angeles Times (Feb. 18, 1990) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-18-ca-1499-story.html

Notes

See also "The negro dancer" (Yale inv. no.: 2001.71.2.34), RIdIM item 6094.

RIdIM record id

6095