<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [art original].</dc:title><dc:creator>Steevens, George, 1736-1800, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[between 1743 and 1799]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A tracing by George Steevens of a print by William Hogarth: A confrontation in a bedchamber between a black woman in a nightgown in bed and four men who surround her canopy bed. One man holds a candle. The woman is slapping the one man while another pulls him away. A fourth man is pointing towards her shoulder</dc:description><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Date based on publication of the original print on which this tracing is based.</dc:description><dc:description>Lengthy pencil note in William Windham's hand above the drawing: These two pieces viz. the one marked Qui Color albus erat and The Charmers of the age? are not prints but copies taken with a pen by Mr. Steevens, and given to me, together with many others, not copies, in return for those mentioned in his collection as given by me to him. [Signed] W.W. March 22d 1800.</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 155.</dc:description><dc:description>Tracing of a published print. Cf. See British Museum. Catalogue of political and personal Satires, v. 3, no. 2600.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>