Black brown & fair [graphic] / design'd by Sir E. Bunbury ; Rowlandson sculp.

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Published/Created:

London :
Pub. May 6-1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside,
[6 May 1807]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28.1 x 21.6 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
"Sir E. Bunbury" may refer to the artist H.W. Bunbury. See British Museum catalogue.
Twenty-four lines of verse below title: You tell me girl that I'm given to rove, that I sport with each lass on the green, that I join in the dance and sing sonnets of love, and still with the fairest am seen ...
Plate numbered "R. 2" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.

Abstract:

"A scene at Wapping, outside a corner-house on the river inscribed 'Dock Head'. Prostitutes look from an open window projecting into the street and on the street level. Beside it is a bill: 'Dr Leak's Pills one smal Pill is a Dose.' A negro sailor walks in at the door, his arm round a brown-skinned girl. Above the door: 'Wapping Bagnio Hot Baths'. On the door-post: 'Neat Wines.' By the door hangs a bird in a cage. Three men stand on the pavement gazing in at the window, where one of the four smiling women is a negress. They are a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, whose long pigtail is pulled by a dwarfish boy. A brown-skinned child sleeps on the pavement. On the right a ship lies against the quay where a sailor and a woman stand, the latter smoking a pipe. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Black brown and fair

Topics:

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, attributed name.
Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.

Call Number:

75
W87
807 v.1
807.05.06.03
Folio 75 W87 807 v.1

Orbis Record:

8710918

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr10884

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10925
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 71

OID:

15814019

PID:

digcoll:2782969