A black lecture on the invasion of Great Britain [graphic].

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Title: A black lecture on the invasion of Great Britain [graphic].
Published / Created: [1846?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published at Wm. Follit's Old Established Economic Carving and Gilding Establishment, 63, Fleet Street
Abstract: Racist image showing a Black man delivering a lecture, standing in front of a large image, with a bust of a Black man with a label "Julius Caesar". With text using dialect
Description: Title from text above image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Lithographic image with accompanying text in letterpress below, on a broadside.
Letterpress text below image begins: Genelem ob colour, on gibbin' some account ob de Roman inwasion ...
Text in upper right corner of sheet, following series statement: To be continued.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxv, p. 31.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 42.9 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1846
Lithographs England London 1846
Broadsides
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain,
Subject (Topic): Black people
Subjects: Great Britain > Black people depicted
England > 1846
England > London > 1846

Access: Public
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