A morning surprise [graphic]

Description

Title: A morning surprise [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created: [1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Below the title: '"Why who the Devil have we got here!! - It is only me Massa.' A man starts up in bed clutching the bed-curtain, staring round in horror at a black woman beside him, who grins at him, her right. hand on his right. shoulder. Her appearance, with white eyeballs and gleaming teeth, is sinister, and the man's hair rises through his night-cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Caption below title: Why "who the devil have we got here." It is only me Massa.
Watermark: C. Ansell 1824.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ix; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.8 x 32.2 cm, on sheet 26 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England 1807
Watermarks (Paper) C Ansell 1824
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Black people
Beds
Demons
Subjects: Black people
Beds
Demons
England > 1807
C Ansell > 1824

Access: Public
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