A devil rolled in snow [graphic]

Description

Title: A devil rolled in snow [graphic]
Published / Created: [approximately 1830?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A grotesque racist caricature of a buxom black woman in a white dress decorated with flowers and a bonnet with ribbons, grinning at the viewer and saying 'Don't you think you Fancy me now Massa'. Probably inspired by the "High Life in Philadelphia'' series by Edward Williams Clay between 1828 and 1830 mocking supposed racial differences and modeled after George and Robert Cruikshank's Life in London
Description: Title etched below image.
Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: An image of a hand, palm facing the viewer.
Date of publication from dealer's description.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Pasted on a blue album sheet at corners: 21.5 x 18 cm.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; February 2022.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English