EditorialA Creole, A loose figure from a diorama by Gerrit Schouten, depicting a Creole man, standing to the right. Both hands are raised. The man is wearing a blue wrap decorated with red and white motifs and with a white trim. He wears bracelets and anklets a...
EditorialA Creole, A loose figure from a diorama by Gerrit Schouten, depicting a Creole woman, standing. Holding both her hands over her breasts. The woman is wearing a long pleated skirt, red with a floral pattern in blue and white. She wears a white plain wra...
EditorialA Creole, A loose figure from a diorama by Gerrit Schouten, representing a Creole man, standing to the left with his left hand in his side. The man is wearing a blue and white striped robe with a white and red trim at the bottom. Over his left shoulder...
EditorialWest Indian Creole woman, with her Black Servant. Date/Period: Ca. 1780. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 305 mm (12 in); Width: 251 mm (9.88 in).
EditorialWest Indian Creole woman, with her Black Servant. Date/Period: Ca. 1780. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 305 mm (12 in); Width: 251 mm (9.88 in).
EditorialPortrait of Mary Jane Seacole (1805 – 14 May 1881), née Grant. A Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a 'British Hotel' behind the lines during the Crimean War, which she described as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters f...
EditorialNadezhda Osipovna Pushkina, known as 'la belle Creole' (1775-1836). Mother of Alexander Pushkin. Russian title translated as : The Album of the Pushkin exhibition in Moscow, 1880 (or: The Pushkin exhibition of 1880: an album). 1887. Source: AC.9088b. P...
EditorialThe eccentric Duchess of Queensbury fencing with her protégé the creole, Soubise (otherwise "Mungo".) Rare caricature by William Austin, published May 1, 1773. Collectanea: or, A collection of advertisements and paragraphs from the newspapers, relati...
EditorialWest Indian Creole woman, with her Black Servant. Date/Period: Ca. 1780. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 305 mm (12 in); Width: 251 mm (9.88 in).
EditorialWest Indian Creole woman, with her Black Servant A West Indian Creole Woman Attended by her Black Servant, c.1780, Agostino Brunias, 1728-1796, Italian.
EditorialMusical Instruments of the African Negroes. Qua-qua 1, kiemba-toetoe flute 2, ansokko-baina balafon 3, great Creole drum 4, great Loango (Congo) drum 5, papa drum 6, small Loango drum 7, small Creole drum 8, coeroema drum 9, Loango-bania thumb piano 10...
EditorialFashionable people playing the flying ring game or the creole game. "When the Parisians adopted the game, it had to be embellished: so the ring was covered with ribbon, then rosettes, then bells." Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le...
EditorialCreole frog, Leptodactylus ocellatus 3a, American toad, Bufo americanus 3b, and Surinam horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta 4. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Amphibia," Augsburg, 1794. Gottlieb Tob...
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