"Midshipmen at table in a confined space, with a low roof, lit by a candle stuck in a bottle, which casts heavy shadows. They drink grog from tea-cups with a blue interior rim. Eight midshipmen sit at the table, bare except for a jug and bottle; of these two play cards, two sleep, one plays a fife. One of the card-players smokes a cigar and holds a handful of coins. A mishipman holds a lighted cigar to the face of his sleeping neighbour. A lieutenant drinks with the midshipmen. A ninth dances tipsily, holding cup and bottle; behind him stands a sailor playing a fiddle. A tenth, wearing a fur cap, struggles sulkily into a greatcoat before going on duty. A black boy stands against the wall grinning at the dancing midshipman. A steward (left) also stands against the wall, before recessed shelves containing a dinner-service. Against the wall hang hats, a dirk, a sextant, a sextant-case, swords, a speaking-trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Marryat from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reissue of no. 14287 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published Aug. 12, 1821, by G. Humphrey.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Sailors, British, Interiors, Intoxication, Ships, and Servants
A scene in a fashionable library with ladies and gentlemen conversing with attendants at the counters on either side. On the left a woman looks in a book while her male companion converses with a clergyman, as the woman behind the counter consults a book. On the right, a man sits in a chair as a lady discusses her choices with the man behind the counter who reaches for a book below a sign 'Stamp'. Behind him is another sign "Just published [...]" An older woman with a walking stick approaches the counter on the right, followed by a Black servant and a dog. The windows are filled with books and prints. Through the open door a woman with an umbrella is silhouetted; to the left another sign "History Westminster and its monuments."
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from the volume in which this plate was issued., Plate from: Poetical sketches of Scarborough / illustrated by twenty-one engravings ... made upon the spot by J. Green and etched by T. Rowlandson. London : Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Diggens, 1813., Aquatint probably added to this plate and others in the volume by J.C. Stadler and J. Bluck. See: Hardie, M. English coloured books., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark, partially trimmed: [J. Wha]tman [18]14.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Geographic):
Scarborough (England) and Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Interiors, Libraries, Books, Bookcases, Window displays, Light fixtures, Dogs, and Stores & shops
Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Companion print: A macaroni family returning from church, also published in the Macaroni and theatrical magazine. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4822., Plate from: The macaroni and theatrical magazine. London : John Williams, April 1773, p. 323., and Temporary local subject terms: Dress: child's dress, 1773 -- Newspapers: London Gazette -- Table setting: breakfast -- Domestic service: black page -- Domestic service: footmen -- Male dress: nightcaps -- Male dress: dressing gown.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Cats, Dandies, British, Dogs, Monkeys, Parrots, Squirrels, and Wigs
"The Prince of Wales and his adherents are travestied as negroes; the Prince stands in a doorway inscribed 'Brookes Rectifier of Spirits', which is represented as a debtor's prison: the heads of George Hanger and Burke are seen through a barred window on the left outside which hangs a basket inscribed 'Pray Remember us Poor Blacks'. Both are naked, except for Hanger's accustomed cocked hat (cf. BMSat 6924), and Burke's biretta (cf. BMSat 6026). The Prince wears a girdle of leaves, a helmet feathered like the head-dress of a Red Indian, but decorated with the triple ostrich plume, and his ribbon and star. He holds out his hands in consternation at the approach of Fox and North (as a woman), their arms interlaced, their faces contorted with grief (cf. BMSat 6193, &c). Fox's hat is inscribed 'Carlo Crusoe'; on his breast is a placard: 'We were unfortunately cast away in the British Channel on board the Portland East Indiaman' (an allusion to the defeat of the Coalition on Fox's India Bill, and probably an imitation of the placards of begging seamen). Their scanty garments are ragged; from North's Garter ribbon hangs a placard: 'Ruined by the American War'. Behind them is another couple with arms interlaced: Lord George Gordon (not a negro) with a black man who carries a primitive stringed instrument, his cap inscribed 'Man Friday'. He is perhaps intended for Sheridan. Gordon flourishes a paper inscribed 'Defence of the Blacks by Lo[rd] G------G------' and says "By all the glories of mischief they have no right to send us to Africa". At the end of the procession Thurlow with a raised stick chases a negro wearing a cap inscribed 'Purveyor', who resembles Weltje, except that he is short and fat, and says, with clasped hands, "O! Oh! - bless your heart Massa Beetle-brow - if you no lick apoor neger man he'll pimp for you.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Statement following imprint: ... of whom may be had the new, very popular and comprehensive print entitled "The French treaty reviewed", &c, &c., and Mounted to 29 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pub'd as the act directs for the proprietor, by E. Macklew, No. 9, Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810, and Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793
"A black saleman selling rabbits kneels on the pavement with his basket, looking up at a young woman who stands at the door of a house; she holds up one of the rabbits by a hind-leg. A manservant holding a dish stands behind her, grinning. Behind is the corner of a street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified based on original drawing in the Huntington Library collection., Two lines of text below title: 'Miss - O la how it smells - sure its not fresh, Mungo - Be gar Misse dot no fair - If Blacke Man take you by Leg so - ; you smell too.', From Drolls., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 8th 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Rabbits, Servants, Street vendors, and Women
Title from item., Sixteen lines of verse in four columns below image: Jack, rich in prizes, now the knot is ty'd, sits pleas'd by her he thinks his maiden bride ..., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject: Skimmington procession -- Pictures amplifying subject: portrait of the Duke of Cumberland -- Creditors., and Loose impression removed from the Kinnaird Coll.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, November [the] 10, 1747, by M. Cooper
Subject (Topic):
Amputees, Bailiffs, Black people, Bowls (Tableware), Candlesticks, Clergy, Dance, Military uniforms, British, Mirrors, Musical instruments, Pipes (Smoking), Portratis, Prostitutes, Sconces, Servants, Tables, Violins, and Weddings
The interior of a well-furnished room. The dentist stands in front of a middle-aged woman seated in a chair (right); he holds her forehead with one hand, with the other he applies a small instrument to her mouth. She grasps a shawl in her left hand. A black boy in livery stands behind the dentist (left) holding an open case of instruments; he looks round grinning. A young woman stands clasping her hands and looking with an expression of horrified concern at the operation. The dentist wears a bag-wig. A cat arches its back and meows. Through a draped sash-window is a steeple. On the wall is a bird in a cage and an oval landscape. Below it is a settee on which sheef of paper
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of a ca. 1784 print after Robert Dighton entitled: The London dentist. Cf. No. 6760 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Teeth, Extraction, Black people, Birdcages, Cats, City and town life, Drawing rooms, Servants, and Women domestics
A scene on the sidewalk outside a walled property: A group of citizens argue with each other, while a policeman apprehends a young man. An older man listens to a bootblack with the aid of an ear trumpet. A Black servant stands at the open door of the property
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Two lines of text below title: Eh, he, I, oh, you, why! A, E, I, O, U, Y.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 24, 1840 by Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Fighting, Hearing aids, Police, and Servants
A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse
Description:
Title from text below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published 15 Feby. 1779 by the proprietor N [...] Broad Street
Subject (Geographic):
Dominica.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dance, Indigenous peoples, and Musical instruments
Four ugly old women try to scrub a black man white with brushes, a kettle of boiling water, as steam billows around the room. A fifth woman brings buckets of hot water. A sixth, in the center background, drinks gin. The black man squats in a big tub, with a pained expression on his face
Description:
Title inscribed beneath central image., Attributed to George Cruikshank., Date inferred from the 1827 publication date of George Cruikshank's Illustrations of time, plate 3 of which includes a smaller version of the central image. Cf. No. 15472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Image also used in Plate 3 of Cruikshank's 'Illustrations of Time'; the attempt to 'wash a black man white' was a traditional example of an impossible task., and On paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1821".
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Ethnic stereotypes, Racism, Wash tubs, and Brooms & brushes
