The full moon in eclipse [graphic]

Description

Title: The full moon in eclipse [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: May 8, 1797.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Abstract: An old man sits outdoors in an upholstered chair, looking through a telescope which is pointed up left to a black woman standing on a cliff with her dress pulled up and her large derrière bared. A dog sits by the man's chair with a similar look on its face as it too looks up at the woman
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to: 38 x 31 cm.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; May 2017.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.5 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain,
Subject (Topic): Black people
Buttocks
Dogs
Telescopes
Subjects: Black people > Great Britain
Buttocks
Dogs
Telescopes
England > 1797
England > London > 1797

Access: Public
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