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1. A devil rolled in snow [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1830?]
- Call Number:
- 830.00.00.163
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A grotesque racist caricature of a buxom black woman in a white dress decorated with flowers and a bonnet with ribbons, grinning at the viewer and saying 'Don't you think you Fancy me now Massa'. Probably inspired by the "High Life in Philadelphia'' series by Edward Williams Clay between 1828 and 1830 mocking supposed racial differences and modeled after George and Robert Cruikshank's Life in London
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: An image of a hand, palm facing the viewer., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Pasted on a blue album sheet at corners: 21.5 x 18 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Racism, Clothing & dress, and Bonnets
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A devil rolled in snow [graphic]
2. [Lady Mansel] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, Charles, -1783, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [ca. 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Duchess of Norfolk
- Description:
- Title from annotation on Horace Walpole's copy in the New York Public Library, identifying the sitter as Lady Barbara Villiers, Baroness Mansell. British Museum catalogue gives title as: [The Duchess of Norfolk?]., Date from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Mansell, Barbara Villiers, Baroness, d. 1761. and Norfolk, Katharine Howard, Duchess of, d. 1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Playing cards, and Hats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Lady Mansel] [graphic]