The image of the Hottentot in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Author

Bassani, Ezio; Tedeschi, Letizia

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Journal of the history of collections. 1990, Num. 2, Vol. 2, p. 157-186, 26 ill.

ISSN

0935-0519

Abstract (en)

Analyzes the nature of visual evidence for African history. Argues that the illustrations of Arab and European reports should be considered not as documents but as illustrations based on European prototypes. Draws attention to the example of six early 17th c. Dutch drawings (four in the Biblioteca medicea-laurenziana in Florence, and two in the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden) representing the Hottentots of the Cape of Good Hope; shows that the figures are based on European models but that the rendering of costume, ornaments, and weapons is accurate; also notes that these drawings provided the models for all the iconography of the Hottentots between the 17th and the 19th cs.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Netherlands
• Drawing
• Netherlands
• 1600-1700
• Hottentots
• Iconography
• Africa
• History
• Illustration
• Europe
• Biblioteca medicea-laurenziana||Firenze (ITA)
• Kupferstich-Kabinett||Dresden (DEU)
• Representation

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Pays-Bas
• Dessin
• Pays-Bas
• 1600-1700
• Hottentots
• Iconographie
• Afrique
• Histoire
• Illustration
• Europe
• Biblioteca medicea-laurenziana||Firenze (ITA)
• Kupferstich-Kabinett||Dresden (DEU)
• Représentation

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920401-00422185

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