The Capture
- On View
- Visual Arts Gallery
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- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
- Created by
- Lawrence, Jacob, American, 1917 - 2000
- Subject of
- Louverture, Toussaint, Haitian, 1743 - 1803
- Printed by
- Stovall, Lou, American, 1937 - 2023
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 32 1/16 x 22 in. (81.5 x 55.9 cm)
- Description
- This silkscreen print depicts a man in a dark red coat on a white horse surrounded by soldiers. The man wears a black bicorn hat and has a sword at his right side. He faces the viewer as his horse throws its head back with its mouth open. The soldiers around this figure are abstracted shapes in brown with tall grey hats. Their wide white eyes stand out from the dark background. The figures are surrounded by tall grasses. The image is surrounded by a wide white margin, with the chop mark of the print shop, Workshop Inc. in the lower left corner.
- Place printed
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- screen prints
- Topic
- African diaspora
- Art
- Colonialism
- Decolonization
- Freedom
- French colonialism
- Men
- Military
- Resistance
- Slavery
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2008.12.11
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 2020 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.