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Yale Center For British Art
Slavery and Portraiture in
18th-century Atlantic Britain
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J. Obrisset, Snuffbox
Attributed to B. Lens, Portrait of a Young Man
W. Hogarth, Taste in High Life
H-F. Gravelot, A Game of Quadrille
G. Hamilton, Group portrait
A. Devis, John Orde, His Wife Anne, and His Eldest Son William
J. Bretherton after T. Orde, High Life Below Stairs
[Unknown artist], An Unknown Man
Anti-Slavery Conder Token
T. Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the British Parliament
J. R. Smith after W. R. Bigg, A Lady and Her Children Relieving a Cottager
J. R. Smith after G. Morland, The Slave Trade
Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship
W. Stedman, Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition
J. Reynolds, Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington
E. Fisher after J. Reynolds, Lady Elizabeth Keppel
J. G. Nordheim after J. Trumbull, Battle of Bunker Hill
J. Trumbull, Lieutenant Thomas Grosvenor and His Negro Servant
I. Sancho, Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African
P. Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
J. A. U. Gronniosaw, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars of the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince
M. Prince, The History of Mary Prince
M. Darly, A Mungo Macaroni
M. Darly, The Chapeau Macaroni
W. Austin, The Duchess of Queensberry Playing at Foils with her Favorite Lap Dog Mungo
R. Cosway, Richard and Maria Cosway
[Unknown artist], group portrait featuring Elihu Yale (YCBA)
[Unknown artist], Elihu Yale Sundial
W. Faithorne after P. Lely, Beauty's Tribute
"Two African Princes," Gentleman's Magazine (London: 1750)
Studio of F. Harwood, Bust of a Man
W. Hogarth, Portrait of a Family
Unknown artist, Signet Ring
W. Pyott after C. F. van Breda, The Benevolent Effects of Abolishing Slavery or the Planter instructing his Negro
P. Martini after J. H. Ramberg, Exhibition of Royal Academy
O. Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
J. R. Smith, A Lady Holding a Negro Mask