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inscription:
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Recto, lower left, graphite: "Our page/ Harry/ Feb 22/ 58"
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description:
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Full-length view of a young African American boy standing to the right of a fireplace. He wears a jacket, pull-over light-colored shirt, trousers, shoes; necklace with small pouch; hat in his left hand
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significance note:
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Sketchbook includes some thirty extremely rare images of black Americans prior to the Civil War. George Fuller travelled to Alabama in 1856 and again in 1857-1858.
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references:
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Sketchbook was exhibited at Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art, 1995.
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provenance:
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These works of art descended in George Fuller's family and are from the family homestead at the Bars.
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signature:
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Sketchbook frontispiece, "G. Fuller/ Mobile Ala/ Feb 4/ 56"
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keywords:
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African American
Art
Children
Clothing, Fashion, Costume
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