A racist and complex print purports to show a dinner held at the African Institution, becoming increasingly drunken and debauched as the evening progresses. Cruikshank employs many common 19th-century racist stereotypes of black people - drunkenness, aggressiveness, and sexual promiscuity - and lampoons the idea that black people could aspire to behave like white people. In the print, the white abolitionists are portrayed as unsuspecting and bewildered innocents who find themselves entirely out of their depth. Cruikshank seems to suggest that their association with black people has corrupted them - that they are being 'uncivilised' rather than black people becoming 'civilised'. Meanwhile, the idea of relationships between races is ridiculed. Many familiar and important figures are represented. Abolitionists like Wilberforce, Stephen and Macaulay appear next to the street entertainer Billy Waters and the radical Robert Wedderburn ... See a full description at Royal Museums Greenwich online catalogue and A design based on Gillray's 'The Union Club' with the roistering fraternizers being English and negroes, in place of English and Irish. The chairman's raised throne with its canopy is on the extreme left, at the head of the table which extends to the right across the design. The throne is an infant's chair, or commode, supported on a round tray based on two casks, one above the other. Wilberforce has risen from the chair, so far as the front bar will permit, his chairman's hammer held between flexed knees ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Place of publication transposed from end of publisher's statement.
Publisher:
Pud. July 19th 1819 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Baartman, Sarah., Henri Christophe, King of Haiti, 1767-1820, Lyon, G. F. 1795-1832. (George Francis),, Macaulay, Zachary, 1768-1838, Marryat, Joseph, 1757-1824., Smith, William, 1756-1835., Stoddart, John, 1773-1856., Stephen, James, 1758-1832., Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825., Wedderburn, R. (Robert), Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, and Anti-slavery Society (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic):
Antislavery movements, Political satire, English, Politics and government, Caricature, Clubs, Ethnic stereotypes, Intoxication, and Racism
A family seated around a table, with a couple on one side, a child in the middle, and the third woman drinking from a large bowl. On the table is a lit candels, drinking glasses, paper and pipes. On the walls hang pictures., Title etched below image., Dated by curator., Verse etched below image in two columns on either side of title, three lines each: See here the various scenes of human life, A debauched husband and a drunken wife, One stupid, faithless, haughty when reprov'd, Loved by her husband, her gallant she lov'd, The husband tho' fortune frown tho' wife desert, Finds a sprightly dame that reviv's his heart., Sheet trimmed around image into plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 71 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Couples, Families, Interiors, and Intoxication
Leaf 42. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese constable, leaning heavily against stocks set on the ground and holding his staff in his right hand, is reaching for a bottle in his left coat pocket. His unfocused gaze betrays his drunk condition. On a column to his right is pasted a placard, "A proclamation against drunkenness." Below the column, a small dog with a name "Guzzle" on his collar is relieving himself on his master's leg
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '13' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Drunkenness -- Torture.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, Strand, March 5th, 1772, accorg. to act
Leaf 42. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An obese constable, leaning heavily against stocks set on the ground and holding his staff in his right hand, is reaching for a bottle in his left coat pocket. His unfocused gaze betrays his drunk condition. On a column to his right is pasted a placard, "A proclamation against drunkenness." Below the column, a small dog with a name "Guzzle" on his collar is relieving himself on his master's leg
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '13' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Drunkenness -- Torture., First of two plates on leaf 42., and 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 17.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, Strand, March 5th, 1772, accorg. to act
Title from caption below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: where folios of caricatures are lent for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Four images in four compartments, each with a caption title., Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms -- Drunkenness -- Glass: decanters -- Emotions, Sadness -- Madness -- Furnishings: patterned carpets., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany 1st, 1800, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Title from item., Advertisement by the printseller following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: wine duty, 1796 -- Mythology: Bacchus -- Windsor uniforms -- Containers: wine casks., Watermark: 1794., Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F., and Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.
Publisher:
Pub. April 26, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, and Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812
A song sheet, all engraved, with an oval image of an obese clergyman with a pipe in hand walking beside the caricatured figure of Jewish man, who carries a lantern, printed above two staves of music with the first verse, above 16 verses in three columns. On the left behind them is building with a lean-to while on the right in the distance across a body of water is a church with a steeple
Description:
Title engraved above image., Other editions attribute the text to George Alexander Stevens (1710-1784) in English short title catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 2nd, 1784, by J. Binns, Leeds, and J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Ethnic stereotypes, Intoxication, Pipes (Smoking), and Lanterns
"A fat vicar with pipe and glass standing in a doorway, regarding a nervous thin clerk, who holds another glass and a lantern; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but stayed to drink with him till past midnight, when both staggered out to go to the church; verses to the song below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '(Plate I)' in lower right below image., First of two plates illustrating a popular song under the same title., Thirty-two lines of verse (first half of the song) printed in two columns below title: At the sign of the horse, old Spintext of course, ..., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
