Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [graphic] / W. Hogarth del. ; S.I. fe.

Published/Created:

[London]
[Samuel Ireland]
[1794]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 157 x 190 mm, on sheet 162 x 230 mm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Added title from Paulson: The discovery.
Cf. No. 2600 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Reed.

Abstract:

"Four gentlemen beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain"--British Museum catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Discovery

Associated Names:

Ireland, Samuel, -1800 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Blacks
Canopy beds
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Seduction
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1794
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1794

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Hogarth 794.00.00.163.1 Box 125

Orbis Record:

11416904

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22756

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16035011

PID:

digcoll:2810938