Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or, Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in consequence of Exporting all our own to Australia!!!!
Designed & etched by George Cruikshank.
[1851, but later.]
Etching. Sheet 155 x 395mm (6 x 15½") Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A variety of white men stand in a port, watching with dismay the landing of a group of caricatured Black women, some in tribal costume. It was drawn and etched by George Cruikshank (1792-1878) and was originally published by David Bogue for Cruikshank's 'The Comic Almanack 1851'; however this example has the publication line erased.
[Ref: 41930] £130.00
[1851, but later.]
Etching. Sheet 155 x 395mm (6 x 15½") Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A variety of white men stand in a port, watching with dismay the landing of a group of caricatured Black women, some in tribal costume. It was drawn and etched by George Cruikshank (1792-1878) and was originally published by David Bogue for Cruikshank's 'The Comic Almanack 1851'; however this example has the publication line erased.
[Ref: 41930] £130.00