"Portrait of Sir Robert Shirley, bust directed to the right but looking at the viewer, wearing turban, in oval frame on rectangle."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from lettered state.
Publisher:
G.P. Harding
Subject (Name):
Sherley, Robert, Sir, 1581?-1628, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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.
Publisher:
Published at Wm. Follit's Old Established Economic Carving and Gilding Establishment, 63, Fleet Street
A woman with a caricatured face looks up at a bell above the piano that she is playing; the shelf under the piano and above on the wall is filled with dishes, pots and pans, a grill, and a kettle; to the side is a pail with a mop. On the piano lid is ...