Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [graphic].

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Title: Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [graphic].
Alternative Title: Discovery
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created: [not before 1743]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed by four men. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man to her right on the cheek while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker, publisher and date from Paulson.
See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal, v. 3, no. 2600.
'Hogarth' written in ink below title.
Mounted to 24.7 x 36.5 cm.
Provenance: Purchased at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, lot 1294. Goodspeed; December 1951. Purchased at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, lot 1294.
Extent: 1 print : image 16.9 x 18.8 cm, sheet 22.7 x 25.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London 1743
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: engraving & etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Confrontations
Black people
Bedrooms
Subjects: Confrontations
Black people > Great Britain
Bedrooms
England > London > 1743
18th century
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Ireland, Samuel, -1800 > Ownership

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