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: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Samuel Ireland
Abstract: "Four gentlemen beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curtain"--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Added title from Paulson: The discovery.
Cf. No. 2600 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Samuel Ireland's copy.
On page 7 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 160 x 197 mm.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 157 x 190 mm, on sheet 162 x 230 mm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Blacks
Canopy beds
Seduction
Subjects: Blacks
Canopy beds
Seduction
England > London > 1794
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership

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