The print was used as the frontispiece of the fourth volume of Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes (The Hague: Gosse, 1774).
| Artist |
Charles-Etienne Gaucher
RKD
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Charles Eisen
RKD
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| Title | Allegory of Nature (The Slavery) |
| Date | ca. 1773 |
| Period | 18th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription outside the depiction, top left: F [...] |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, top right: Tom. 4. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, bottom left: Car. Eisen del. | |
| printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: Car. Gaucher ex academ. art. Lond. incid. 1773. | |
| inscription reverse, centre: 354 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-IK |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-IK |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11470/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
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'Natura' (allegorical figure or scene; or as Diana of Ephesus, with many breasts); 'Natura' (Ripa)
Iconclass
21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25G31 shrubs Iconclass 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass 25H23 sea (seascape) Iconclass 25I22 prospect of village, silhouette of village Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A236 lying figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D111 infant, baby ~ the ages of man Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 32B321 African negroes Iconclass 41A18 hut, cabin, lodge Iconclass 42A32(+0) feeding a baby (+ variant) Iconclass 44G321(WHIP) instruments of torture, execution or punishment (WHIP) Iconclass 44G33 torture Iconclass 46A18 slavery; serfs and slaves Iconclass 46A181 slave-trade Iconclass 46C21 ships (in general) Iconclass 46C23 boat propelled by man or animal Iconclass 46C24 sailing-ship, sailing-boat Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass |
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