1 Isaac Robert Cruikshank, John Bull Taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery...

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Description: John Bull Taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery Question!!

TitleJohn Bull Taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery Question!!

Creator nameCruikshank, Robert

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1826

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

LocationBrynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, England

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSatire in artSlavery in artAbolitionistsWest Indies, British

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Introduction: Assessing the Culture of Refinement

Kay Dian Kriz

Description: Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies,...

Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840

~In 1826 Isaac Robert Cruikshank produced a pro-West Indian satire titled John Bull Taking a Clear View of the Negro Slavery Question!! (1826; pl. 1). The targets of his attack were the East Indian interest, which had been lobbying to abolish preferential duties favoring West Indian sugar, and abolitionists,...

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Kay Dian Kriz

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.1-7

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00314.1

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Chapter subject tags:Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856Slavery--West IndiesSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryCaricatures and cartoons--British--19th centuryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--19th centuryRace in art--Caribbean Area--19th centuryColonialism--Caribbean Area--History

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Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences (Emancipation of the Blacks)

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameJennings, Samuel

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1792

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions60 1/4 × 73 in. (153 × 185.4 cm)

LocationThe Library Company of Philadelphia

https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A59330

Accession numberOBJ 250

Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences...

Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences (Emancipation of the Blacks)

A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallow

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator nameBlake, William

Creator name (description)After John Gabriel Stedman

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1796

Object typePrint

MaterialsLine-engraving

Dimensionsspine height: 12 in. (30.5 cm)

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2035511

Accession numberF2410 S81 1796+ Oversize

A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a...

A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallow

Barbarities in the West Indias

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator nameGillray, James

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1791

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching with hand coloring

Dimensionsplate: 9 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (24.6 × 34.9 cm)

LocationLewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington, Connecticut

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11811289

Accession numberUncat Auchincloss Gillray Collection TSIP 41751 Auchincloss

Barbarities in the West Indias

Svcerie

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator nameLe Clerc, Jacques Sébastien

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1667

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

Dimensionsimage, 8 × 13 5/8 in. (20.2 × 34.5 cm)

LocationThe John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/JCB~1~1~421~115902022:Sucrerie?qvq=w4s:/who%2Fle%2BClerc;q:Histoire%20generale%20des%20Antilles%20habit%C3%A9es%20par%20les%20Fran%C3%A7ois&mi=4&trs=6

Accession numberE667 D975h

Svcerie

The Army of Jugs

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1793–1794

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching with hand coloring on paper

Dimensions11 3/4 x 19 5/8 in. (30 x 50 cm)

LocationBibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

The Army of Jugs

Justice and Humanity at Home

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 19

Creator nameNewton, Richard

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1792

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching on paper

Dimensions387 x 505 mm

LocationNew-York Historical Society

Justice and Humanity at Home

The Abolition of the Slave Trade

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator nameCruikshank, Isaac

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1792

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching with hand coloring

Dimensionsimage: 8 3/4 × 13 1/4 in. (22.3 × 33.5 cm)

LocationLewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington, Connecticut

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/16740500

Accession number792.04.10.03

The Abolition of the Slave Trade

Entre Diplomates (Embrassons-nous et tout ça finisse!)

Posted by:John Carlson

May 18

Creator nameFaustin

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1870–1871

Object typePrint

MaterialsHand-colored lithograraph

Dimensions29.2 × 21.6 cm

LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O187526/entre-diplomates-print-betbeder-faustin/

Accession numberE.2276-1962

Entre Diplomates (Embrassons-nous et...

Entre Diplomates (Embrassons-nous et tout ça finisse!)

Pitcher, reverse

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator name (description)1853 or shortly thereafter

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date1853

Object typeContainer

MaterialsCream-colored earthenware with Rockingham glaze

Dimensions8 3/4 x 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in. (22.2 x 22.2 x 14.3 cm

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/62773

Accession number1931.1806

Pitcher, reverse

Sweet Potato Planting

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 01

Creator nameMoore, Henry P.

Creator name (description)Taken by James Hopkinson's Plantation photographer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1862

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen silver print

DimensionsImage: 15.5 x 20.5 cm, on mount: 27 x 34.5 cm.

LocationLibrary of Congress, Washington, D.C.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010651644/

Accession numberLC-DIG-ppmsca-11398

Sweet Potato Planting

Antislavery Medallion

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameHackwood, William

Creator name (description)William Hackwood, modeler; Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, manufacturer

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Dimensionsdiam. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm).

LocationChipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Antislavery Medallion

The Bostonians in Distress

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameDawe, Philip

Creator name (description)Attributed to Philip Dawe; Printed in London for R. Sayer and J. Bennett

Creator nationality/cultureBritish

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1774

Object typePrint

MaterialsMezzotint with some burin work

Dimensions18 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (47.6 x 29.2 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/43659

Accession number1946.9.368

The Bostonians in Distress

The Hornet and Peacock, Or, John Bull in Distress

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameDoolittle, Amos

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1813

Object typePrint

MaterialsHand-colored etching

Dimensions10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in. (25.7 x 33.7 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/11442

Accession number1955.44.20

The Hornet and Peacock, Or, John Bull in...

The Hornet and Peacock, Or, John Bull in Distress

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator nameBlake, William

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1796

Object typePrint

MaterialsLine-engraving

Dimensionsspine height: 12 in. (30.5 cm)

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Accession numberF2410 S81 1796+ Oversize

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave

Slave Market

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1850–1860

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 3/4 x 39 1/2 in.

LocationCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/055792d2-d0de-46fb-b12f-7f0d91d5ae34

Accession number58.4

Slave Market

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameDawe, Philip

Creator name (description)Attributed to Philip Dawe; Printed in London for R. Sayer and J. Bennett

Creator nationality/cultureBritish

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1774

Object typePrint

MaterialsMezzotint with some burin work

Dimensions18 5/8 x 11 5/8 in (47.3 x 29.5 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/44094

Accession number1946.9.369

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or...

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

A Meeting of Connoisseurs

Posted by:John Carlson

May 17

Creator nameBoyne, John

Creator nationality/cultureIrish

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1790–1807

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions413 × 555 mm

LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O124120/a-meeting-of-connoisseurs-watercolour-boyne-john/

Accession number1703–1871

A Meeting of Connoisseurs

A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameDawe, Philip

Creator nationality/cultureBritish

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1775

Object typePrint

MaterialsMezzotint

Dimensions14 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (36.8 x 27.2 cm)

LocationLibrary of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96511606/

Accession numberLC-USZC4-4617

A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at...

A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina

The Oath of the Ancestors

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 19

Creator nameLethiere, Guillaume

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1822

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationPalais National, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The Oath of the Ancestors

Many Mansions

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 11

Creator nameMarshall, Kerry James

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1994

Object typeCollage

MaterialsAcrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions114 x 135 in. (289.6 x 343 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/137125/many-mansions

Accession number1995.147

Many Mansions

To the Victors Belong the Spoils

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameNast, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1889

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and ink

Dimensions19 5/8 x 15 5/8 in. (49.8 x 39.7 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/17107

Accession number1954.62.3

To the Victors Belong the Spoils

English Syndicate (British Gold)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameNast, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1889

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and ink

Dimensions17 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. (44.7 x 65.1 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/22337

Accession number1962.60.12

English Syndicate (British Gold)

Le vieil Orphanée africain

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator nameDebret, Jean Baptiste

Creator name (description)Signed

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1826

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions156 × 215 mm

LocationMuseus Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maya, Rio de Janeiro

Accession numberMEA 0280

Le vieil Orphanée africain

Greek Slave

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator namePowers, Hiram

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Dimensions65 15/16 × 20 1/4 × 18 1/2 in. (167.5 × 51.4 × 47 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.166484.html

Accession number2014.79.37

Greek Slave

The Greek Slave

Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 01

Creator nameDouglas, Aaron

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1934

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions57 3/4 x 138 1/4 in (146.7 x 351.2 cm)

LocationNew York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/634c04bc-fed3-b0e8-e040-e00a18063c1a

Accession numberb11486938

Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the...

Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South

Young black slave

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date300-200 BCE

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsBlack marble

Dimensions39.4 in. (100 cm)

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010278441

Accession numberMa 4926

Young black slave

Statue of a young black carrying a situla, from Aphrodisias, Imperial baths

Description: It Leads U S to A Challenge. It was indeed a "Wild and Reckless"...

It Leads U S to A Challenge. It was indeed a "Wild and Reckless" Sacrifice of Blood and Money To Save One's Country To Be Ruled Over by One So Ungrateful!

Posted by:John Carlson

Jul 03

Creator nameNast, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1893

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and ink

Dimensions22 x 15 7/8 in. (55.9 x 40.3 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/17118

Accession number1954.62.4

It Leads U S to A Challenge. It was...

It Leads U S to A Challenge. It was indeed a "Wild and Reckless" Sacrifice of Blood and Money To Save One's Country To Be Ruled Over by One So Ungrateful!

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 09

Creator nameSaar, Betye

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1972

Object typeOther

MaterialsWood, cotton, plastic, metal, acrylic paint, printed paper, and fabric

Dimensions11 3/4 × 8 × 2 3/4 in.

LocationBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive , University of California, Berkeley

https://webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu/bampfa/search/search/?maxresults=1&displayType=full&idnumber=1972.84

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

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