Tregear's Black Jokes. The Card Party.They Are Certainly Black Legs. see Tregear's Catalogue.
W Summers del.t Hunt sculp.t.
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14").
Black men and women sit at a table, lit by candlelight, playing cards. Plate 7 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman: Hunt p 132.
[Ref: 51780] £260.00
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 255 x 355mm (10 x 14").
Black men and women sit at a table, lit by candlelight, playing cards. Plate 7 of a series of 20 'Black Jokes', originally published the year that the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. It was advertised as 'A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners amongst Blacks'.
Hickman: Hunt p 132.
[Ref: 51780] £260.00