Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [graphic].
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Description
- 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
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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
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3646 no. 2
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Engravings England London 1743
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- engraving & etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic)
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Confrontations
Black people
Bedrooms - Subjects
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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
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11706257
- Object ID (OID)
- 10997140