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McElroy, et al., <EM>Facing History: the Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940</EM>, (San Francisco, CA: Bedford Arts Publishers, 1990). , p. 12-13","date":1990,"id":7753,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/257060236"},{"boilertext":"Kathleen Thompson &amp; Hilary Mac Austin, eds., <EM>The face of our past: images of Black women from colonial America to the present</EM>, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999).","citation":"Kathleen Thompson &amp; Hilary Mac Austin, eds., <EM>The face of our past: images of Black women from colonial America to the present</EM>, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999)., p. 130 (illus.)","date":1999,"id":7754,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/245840328"},{"boilertext":"Kim F. Hall, \"Object into object?: some thoughts on the presence of black women in early modern culture\", in Peter Erickson and Clark Hulse, eds., <EM>Early modern visual culture : representation, race, and empire in Renaissance England</EM>, (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).","citation":"Kim F. Hall, \"Object into object?: some thoughts on the presence of black women in early modern culture\", in Peter Erickson and Clark Hulse, eds., <EM>Early modern visual culture : representation, race, and empire in Renaissance England</EM>, (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)., p. 369, fig. 128;","date":2000,"id":7755,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/901887135"},{"boilertext":"Tonya Bolden, <EM>Tell all the children our story: memories and mementos of being young and Black in America</EM>,&nbsp;(New York: Abrams, 2001).","citation":"Tonya Bolden, <EM>Tell all the children our story: memories and mementos of being young and Black in America</EM>,&nbsp;(New York: Abrams, 2001)., p. 14 (illus.)","date":2002,"id":61,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/227195311"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions 1969\", <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 29, no. 1 (1970): p. 16-27.","citation":"\"Acquisitions 1969\", <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 29, no. 1 (1970): p. 16-27., p. 17","date":1970,"id":3435,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774558"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"American Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1800-1850","dateend":1812,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Portrait of a Negro Girl","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1969-9","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"This pair of compelling portraits is based on seventeenthcentury Dutch prints of a young woman and young man of African origin. Recreated here in the traditional folk-art technique of reverse glass painting, this young pair turn their bodies toward each other as their faces gaze outward, a traditional arrangement for paintings of newly engaged or married couples. The identities of these figures are unknown, but their dress is characteristic of seventeenth-century America.","remarks":"Making History Visible"}],"datebegin":1802,"sortnumber":"1969    9y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:23:47.075601","objectid":31293,"dimensions":"9.1 x 7.6 cm (3 9/16 x 3 in.)\r\nframe: 31.3 x 41.5 x 3.2 cm (12 5/16 x 16 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.)","on_view":false}