A grand Jamaica ball!, or, The Creolean hop a la muftee as exhibeted [sic] in Spanish Town. [graphic]

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Title: A grand Jamaica ball!, or, The Creolean hop a la muftee as exhibeted [sic] in Spanish Town. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Creolean hop a la muftee
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1802.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by William Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Description: Title etched below image.
Text below title: Graciously dedicated to the Honble. Mrs. R-n, custodi morum &c &c.
Six lines of verse below image, three on either side of title: Farewell ye girls! and still alas! As mama bids sad Red Coats shun! ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Jamaica: Governor's house in Spanish Town -- Dancing: Jamaican ball -- Farewell for 67th Regt., Nov. 1801 -- Jamaican blacks -- Negro musicians -- Military musicians -- Ball costume, 1802 -- Military uniforms -- Officers uniforms -- Dances: Creoleon Hop -- Ballrooms -- Social customs: Jamaica, 1802.
Matted to 56 x 72 cm.
Date in imprint altered in ms. from "1802" to "1803."
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. x, p. 146.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.1 x 52 cm, on sheet 38 x 53 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Aquatints England London 1802
Material: etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1802
England > London > 1802

Access: Public
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