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Africa,
18th century

attributed to Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667–1735

y1954-417

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The symbolic attributes of the Four Continents follow Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (1593), the most influential iconographic dictionary of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Because of its warm climate and European beliefs that the continent had sparse resources Africa is depicted wearing a turban but with little clothing. She is attended by a lion and elephant, and among the Continents she is the only one with non-European facial features.

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Title

Africa

Dates

18th century

Maker

attributed to Jan Claudius de Cock

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

h. 81.5 cm (32 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne for the Boudinot Collection

Object Number

y1954-417

Culture

Flemish

Type

sculpture

Materials

marble

Subject

putti, allegory, figures (representations), lions, women, elephants

Betsy Rosasco, Anne Gossen, and Elizabeth Allan, "'My Four Marble Emblems': Elias Boudinot's Four Continents in Eighteenth-Century America," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 70 (2011): p. 30-45., p. 33, fig. 5

Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery, Princeton University Art Museum (July 14– September 23, 2012)

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Attributed to Jan Claudius de Cock (Flemish, 1667–1735), Africa, 18th century. Marble; 81.5 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne for the Boudinot Collection (y1954-417)
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Attributed to Jan Claudius de Cock (Flemish, 1667–1735), Africa, 18th century. Marble; 81.5 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne for the Boudinot Collection (y1954-417)

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