Adventures of Johnny Newcome. [graphic] / Pl. 2Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker[not before 22 November 1812]eng"A companion plate to No. 11983. [1] 'Johnnys reception by "merry Tonkanoo at Negro Ball'. The ball is in an open shed with a black fiddler seated high on a hogshead; most of the guests watch Johnny, the only white, and 'Tonkanoo' bowing to each other. The latter is a tall black man with huge false moustache and long wig, feathered hat, and wide-cuffed coat in imitation of English dress c. 1740, with breeches and bare legs. A black servant behind Johnny disperses flies with a branch. A black couple is dancing; the ladies are fully dressed, some with tall cylindrical hats. Behind are distant mountains. [2] 'Johnny dancing with Rosa -- the Planters beautiful daughter'. At the same ball all the slaves form a background of admiring spectators while Johnny, still wearing his enormous hat, dances with a pretty English girl in conventional evening dress, holding both her hands. Tonkanoo stands with his arms extended towards them. In the foreground (left) is a little naked black Cupid with bow, quiver, and arrows, pointing to the couple. [3] 'Johnnys Courtship and professions of Love to Rosa'. Rosa reclines on a sofa under a piece of drapery looped from a tree; Johnny (left), hat in hand, kneels at her feet while the Cupid aims his bow at him. A pet monkey sits beside Rosa, and behind her (right) stands a black girl brushing away flies with a branch. Johnny's servant is behind (left) holding an umbrella. Two cockatoos bill on a branch. [4] 'Johnny and the fair Rosa tripping to the Altar of Hymen'. The pair run hand in hand along a path which winds to a church resembling an English village church. Black servants run after them, one holding up a large umbrella. Before them run two little black figures; one is Cupid playing a fiddle, the other, Hymen, holds up a lighted torch. In the distance, nearing the church, are the parson and his clerk. [5] 'Nuptial ceremony of Johnny and the charming Rosa'. In a Gothic church the parson with his book stands behind a cylindrical altar on which are two hearts transfixed by an arrow. Johnny puts the ring on Rosa's finger. The black congregation are delighted. Against the altar sit Cupid and Hymen; Cupid wears Johnny's huge hat and plays the fiddle; Hymen blows at his torch. [6] 'Johnny and his fair Bride reveling in Jollity and festive mirth'. Johnny, tipsily jovial, his father-in-law, and Rosa, sit at table, drinking, the men smoking, many bottles of 'Sangaree' on the floor. A man fiddles, and in the background a dance is in progress. Johnny wears his planter's hat, &c., as in No. 11983, and has always a swarm of flies round his head. Rosa throughout wears her ball-dress, with feathers in her hair. Plate numbered 180."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched above image.Later state; imprint has been mostly burnished from plate.Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. by Ts. Tegg, Nr. 22, 1812, Cheapside No. 111. Cf. No. 11984 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.Plate numbered "180" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.Also issued separately."Price one shilling coloured."Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.Temporary local subject terms: Negro -- Fiddler.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.Leaf 33 in volume 3.