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Association de capoeira PALMARES de Paris. Augustus Earle, 1821 – 1824 |
Revision date: NOV 13, 2004.
Augustus Earle was born in England in 1793, in an American
art-oriented
family. A gifted boy, he first exposed at age
13.
Soon after the completion of his formal training, he set out
to travel, first in the
Mediteranean, then in the United States of
America, and then, at 27, to South
America. After a brief stay in
Peru, he disembarked in january 1821 in Rio de
Janeiro. He stayed
in Brazil until February 1824. During these three years he
remainded
an independant artist. He gave a few of his watercolors to
Maria
Graham, who made use of them in her Journal of a Voyage
to Brazil, and
Residence there during the years 1821, 1822, 1823,
London:1824.
Otherwise Earle's work, mainly watercolours, was not
published. The National
library of Australia hold and show on
their website a set of these; that is the land
that Earle visited
after Brazil. The rest is dispersed.
See this picture and more
by Augustus Earle, in the picture search pages of the
Nacional
Library of Australia www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/,
item id. earle650.jpg;
also in the University of Virginia USA,
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
picture
database project,
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html,
item id. IMG03.
In England as well as in Germany, a philosophic trend expressed as early as in the 18.th century the opinion that the real identity of the people is not defined by the educated class' manners, which are always cosmopolitan, but in the simple ways of the common folk.
Boxing and boxing engraving were popular in Britain in young Earle's time; this leads us to suspect that he might have observed better the detail of the action on the glimpse than Rugendas, who as far as we know had not been exposed to any pugilistic culture in Augsburg or Münich, could. See for example the relaxed hands of the fighters.
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