What a nice bit! [graphic]

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Title: What a nice bit! [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: July 8, 1796.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Abstract: A large black woman, smiling in her sleep, lies in a bed surrounded by bedcurtains. She wears a cap and earrings, and her large breasts hang out over her nightclothes. A thin old, white man also in nightclothes and a night cap ogles her by the candlelight from the candlestick he holds in his right hand
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to: 33 x 43 cm.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; May 2017.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Aquatints England London 1796
Material: etching and aquatint wove paper, hand-colored ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain,
Subject (Topic): Black people
Candlesticks
Canopy beds
Lust
Sleepwear
Subjects: Black people > Great Britain
Candlesticks
Canopy beds
Lust
Sleepwear
England > 1796
England > London > 1796

Access: Public
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