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1.
A black lecture on the invasion of Great Britain [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1846?]
Call Number:
846.00.00.09+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Racist image showing a Black man delivering a lecture, standing in front of a large image, with a bust of a Black man with a label "Julius Caesar". With text using dialect
Description:
Title from text above image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Lithographic image with accompanying text in letterpress below, on a broadside., Letterpress text below image begins: Genelem ob colour, on gibbin' some account ob de Roman inwasion ..., and Text in upper right corner of sheet, following series statement: To be continued.
Publisher:
Published at Wm. Follit's Old Established Economic Carving and Gilding Establishment, 63, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A black lecture on the invasion of Great Britain [graphic].

2.
The library [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1813]
Call Number:
813.00.00.24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a fashionable library with ladies and gentlemen conversing with attendants at the counters on either side. On the left a woman looks in a book while her male companion converses with a clergyman, as the woman behind the counter consults a book. On the right, a man sits in a chair as a lady discusses her choices with the man behind the counter who reaches for a book below a sign 'Stamp'. Behind him is another sign "Just published [...]" An older woman with a walking stick approaches the counter on the right, followed by a Black servant and a dog. The windows are filled with books and prints. Through the open door a woman with an umbrella is silhouetted; to the left another sign "History Westminster and its monuments."
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from the volume in which this plate was issued., Plate from: Poetical sketches of Scarborough / illustrated by twenty-one engravings ... made upon the spot by J. Green and etched by T. Rowlandson. London : Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Diggens, 1813., Aquatint probably added to this plate and others in the volume by J.C. Stadler and J. Bluck. See: Hardie, M. English coloured books., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark, partially trimmed: [J. Wha]tman [18]14.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Geographic):
Scarborough (England) and Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Interiors, Libraries, Books, Bookcases, Window displays, Light fixtures, Dogs, and Stores & shops
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The library [graphic]

3.
The full moon in eclipse [graphic]

Creator:
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 8, 1797.
Call Number:
797.05.08.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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., and Mounted to: 38 x 31 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Buttocks, Dogs, and Telescopes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The full moon in eclipse [graphic]

4.
What a nice bit! [graphic]

Creator:
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 8, 1796.
Call Number:
796.07.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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., and Mounted to: 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Lust, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > What a nice bit! [graphic]

5.
[The Jewish moneylender] [graphic].

Creator:
Spilsbury, Jonathan, approximately 1737-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1770]
Call Number:
770.00.00.186
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A Jewish(?) man stands with wide eyes as he looks up from his work sorting coins in bags before an open coffer, the key and lock on the table
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Mounted to 48 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Money, Safes, and Ethnic stereotypes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [The Jewish moneylender] [graphic].

6.
Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [art original].

Creator:
Steevens, George, 1736-1800, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1743 and 1799]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
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
Alternative Title:
Discovery
Description:
Title from item., Date based on publication of the original print on which this tracing is based., 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., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 155., Tracing of a published print. Cf. See British Museum. Catalogue of political and personal Satires, v. 3, no. 2600., and On page 100 in volume 1.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Confrontations, Black people, and Bedrooms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo [art original].