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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1827]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 10 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four ugly old women try to scrub a black man white with brushes, a kettle of boiling water, as steam billows around the room. A fifth woman brings buckets of hot water. A sixth, in the center background, drinks gin. The black man squats in a big tub, with a pained expression on his face
- Description:
- Title inscribed beneath central image., Attributed to George Cruikshank., Date inferred from the 1827 publication date of George Cruikshank's Illustrations of time, plate 3 of which includes a smaller version of the central image. Cf. No. 15472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Image also used in Plate 3 of Cruikshank's 'Illustrations of Time'; the attempt to 'wash a black man white' was a traditional example of an impossible task., and On paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1821".
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Ethnic stereotypes, Racism, Wash tubs, and Brooms & brushes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Time thrown away [art original].