"The fashionable guests, many being probably portraits and almost all elderly and plain, stand in conversation except for four at a card-table in the foreground, and for a military officer (? Prince Leopold) who lounges on a sofa. The room is bare except for a huge pier-glass and for heavily fringed and draped curtains, and for a bust of Napoleon on a pedestal which dominates the guests. An ugly little embodiment of acrid pedantry gazes up at it. There is an elaborate gas chandelier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 3d 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street St. James's
Several designs, many with captions including a black coach driver; a fashionably dressed young black woman; a mother and child; a child with a doll; a scene in which whites hoe the ground under the watch of a black overseer, etc. In the center, the largest design shows three women playing cards with an Indian man who is smoking a hookah
Description:
Title from caption below central image., Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 4 No. 5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Card games, Cats, Coach drivers, Infants, Mothers, and Water pipes (Smoking)
