Martin, Robert, active 1770-1838, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
837.00.00.43
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Advertisement for the lithographers and lithographic printers R. Martin & Co, with various images of the work they undertook, including portraits, landscapes, maps, architectural and animal prints; a tablet at centre in front of the portrait of a man lettered with 'A Specimen / of / Ink Lithography, / from R. Martin's / 124 High Holborn.'; armour in foreground at right; a scroll in foreground at centre left signed 'Henry R'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text at center of image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect? Sheet trimmed with possible loss of text from lower margin. Impression at the British Museum (registration no.: 2000,U.6) is lettered below image "Designed, drawn on stone, printed & published by R. Martin & Co., lithographers, 74 St. Martin's Lane, & 26 Long Acre.", and Mounted to: 21.2 x 29.5 cm.
A visualization of the racist folk song, "Coal Black Rose", one of the earliest songs to be sung by a man in blackface, popularized in July 1829. The lyrics of "Coal Black Rose" tells of a fight between two black men, Sambo and Cuffee, rivals for the same woman
Description:
Title from text below image, which are lyrics from the song sung by the depicted figures: Lubly Rose Oh! Coal Black Rose. Tank you Sambo yes I cum. Dont you hear the banjo tum, tum. Oh! Rose the Coal Black Rose. and Date from subject matter, the date when the song was popularized.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blackface minstrel music, Black people, Banjos, Ethnic stereotypes, and Minstrel shows
A view of Walter Hancock's steam omnibus Enterprise (built for the London and Paddington Steam Carriage Company) which was used to began a regular service between London Wall and Paddington via Islington on 22 April 1833
Description:
Title from item. and Laid on sheet: 56 x 38 cm. With C.J. Grant's The old and new stagers, or, Steam speed against a mile an hour! (No. 129 in the series Political drama).