Tregear's Black Jokes. The Lady Patroness of Alblacks.
W Summers del.t Hunt sculp.t.
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Glue stains entering edge of plate.
A black woman in a low-cut white dress stands before a full-length mirror. Plate two 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 129.
[Ref: 51782] £330.00
Published by G S Tregear 123 Cheapside London. [n.d., c.1834.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Glue stains entering edge of plate.
A black woman in a low-cut white dress stands before a full-length mirror. Plate two 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 129.
[Ref: 51782] £330.00