Rachel Pringle of Barbadoes [art original].

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Title: Rachel Pringle of Barbadoes [art original].
Alternative Title: Rachel Pringle of Barbados
Published / Created: Decbr. 31, 1823.
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: A half-length portrait of Rachel Pringle, a large Barbados woman wearing a stripped headscarf, long dangling earrings, and a pearl necklace from which hangs a cameo of an English officer in uniform
Description: Title and date from item.
Portrait of Rachel Pringle probably based on the 1792 Thomas Rowlandson etching of the same title, without the background drama in the Bridgetown brothel.
Signed with the monogram of an unidentified artist: possibly 'FCh' followed by the date.
Formerly part of a scrapbook, now detached, mounted on blue paper, page trimmed. Clippings from newspapers mounted above the portrait include three poems and songs, the unsigned "The last leaf of summer", "Dirge" by M.H.J., and "There is not one familar face", the last of which includes a review of "Songs for the grave and the gay" by Thomas Haynes Bayly.
On the verso, an engraving by W. Deeble, drawn by J.P. Neale, and printed by J. Bishop: Fonthill Abbey, the Oratory. London : Pub. Feb.1, 1824 by J.P. Neale ... Also three small etchings of country laborers.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; October 2008;
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 26 x 19 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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