A female Bermudan street vendor is sitting behind her produce wares under a makeshift sun shade. She wears a white scarf over her hair and a dress dyed primarily white and midnight blue; her hands are slightly raised and outstretched towards the diverse assortment of produce
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly one of a series of small drawings of black Bermudans., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Bermuda Islands
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Street vendors, Produce stands, Corn, Bananas, and Squashes
Publisher and date supplied by curator., Edition of 250., After the artist's painting of 1936., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Associated American Artists
Subject (Topic):
Southern States, Farm life, Death, Black people, Dead persons, Angels, Demons, Farmhouses, Dogs, and Mailboxes
Title devised by cataloger., Date based on similar print published by W. Dickenson 1 April 1786., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted with Kinnaird 87K(d): Head of Diana
A man dressed in tattered clothes and smoking a pipe carries a bundle on his bald head
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly one of a series of small drawings of black Bermudans., and For further information, consult library staff.
A man dressed only in tattered shorts with a sack tied around his waist carries a long canoe balanced on his head and a secondary supporting pole
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly one of a series of small drawings of Black Bermudans., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Bermuda Islands and Bermuda Islands.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Porters, Lifting & carrying, and Canoes
Title supplied by curator., Original work created 1883., Place of publication derived from artist's country of residence., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Self medication, Traditional medicine, Black people, Sick persons, Ethnic stereotypes, Medicines, and Quilts
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Title continues: ... Not a bit Massa, you see I lay down and go sleep close by him side!, and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
A large black woman, smiling in her sleep, lies in a bed surrounded by bedcurtains. She wears a cap and earrings, and her large breasts hang out over her nightclothes. A thin old, white man also in nightclothes and a night cap ogles her by the candlelight from the candlestick he holds in his right hand
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to: 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Lust, and Sleepwear
"Five designs arranged as in No. 11131, the place of the sixth being filled by the inscription below 2. [1] A West India Nabob. He sprawls on a sofa wearing a wide-brimmed hat and with his feet supported on two small chairs. Round him stand nine young women and children. The room is bare, with a table on which is a large bowl, bottle, and glasses. [2] Creolean Patience. A dark-haired lady reclines in a chair, holding a piece of needlework, addressing a black woman, in a sparsely furnished room. Below: "Mimbo "Here Missee "Tell Quashebah to tell Prue to tell Dido "to tell Sue to come and pick up / "my Needle. "Yes Missee "Quashebah is gone to Market "Missee and wont be back dis / " tre hour "What am I to wait three hours for my needle? "Tell Prue to tell Dido to tell Sue to come "and pick up my Needle" "Yes Missee Sue is scratching my Massah's legs and cant come for dis two hour. Oh dear me! one must have the Patience of Job to live in this world with any comfort, here I must wait two hours for my Needle -- Oh dear me! [3] Part of the façade of a house, two open sash-windows above, and, below, a doorway between two windows with open jalousies. The head of the lady of [2] looks from an upper window to say to a black woman standing in the doorway : Quashebah come and take my Head in again. [4] Portable Boot Jack. A planter in a broad-brimmed hat reclines in an arm-chair, wearing top-boots; the left leg, horizontally extended, is held between the legs of a black servant, who is supported by a second (left), while a mixed race boy steadies the back of the chair, and is supported by the back of a fourth boy (right). The man pushes his right foot against the posterior of the first servant, in order to draw off his left boot. [5] One of the Luxuries. The planter leans back in a chair, while one woman cuts his hair, and a second, kneeling on the ground, washes his feet. They are both mixed race. A black girl plies a fan, and a second approaches with a bowl on her head holding out a goblet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Nineteen lines of text in the center of the design., Companion print: Johnny Newcome in love in the West Indies., and Temporary local subject terms: Nabon -- Creolian -- Planter.
Publisher:
Published April, 1803 by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street, London
