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Personification of Africa
Rosalba Carrierabefore 1720
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Bust length figure of a black woman, her right breast exposed and holding a scorpion in her right hand. She wears a turban decorated with feathers and jewels, pearl pendant earrings and a close-fitting pearl necklace. Her body is tilted forward and her gaze is directed to the left.
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- Title: Personification of Africa
- Creator: Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757
- Date Created: before 1720
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/125214
- Medium: Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
- Credit line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
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