Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [graphic]

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Title: Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [graphic]
Alternative Title: Discovery
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Samuel Irerland
Abstract: "Four gentlemen beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Added title from Paulson: The discovery.
Cf. No. 2600 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Provenance: Goodspeed; December 1951. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 124.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 155 x 190 mm, on sheet 161 x 206 mm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Blacks
Canopy beds
Seduction
Subjects: Blacks
Canopy beds
Seduction
England > London > 1794
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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