This is one of 43 watercolors in Luso-Italian artist (and colonial official for the Portuguese empire) Carlos Julião’s manuscript titled “Riscos Iluminados de Figurinhos de Negros e Brancos dos Uzos do Rio de Janeiro e Serro Frio” [Illuminated Sketches of Black and White Figures from the Uzos of Rio de Janeiro and Serro Frio.” This late eighteenth-century manuscript (published in 1960 by the National Library of Rio de Janeiro) contains various ethnographies of people residing in colonial India, Peru, and Brazil.

Source: Silvia Hunold Lara, Customs and Costumes: Carlos Juliao and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil