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Contributor Fores, S.W., publisher.
Title [Manufacturing cigars for the poodles. A sketch from the Havannah.] [graphic] / [As hungry dogs will dirty pudding eat. So poodles suck such nauceous trash for treats.]
Publisher London : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Picca[dilly]
Publisher ENG. London. 1827
Date October 5, 1827
Physical Description 1 print : hand colored lithograph ; sheet 29 x 21 cm (8 x 11.25 in.)
Description Print depicting West Indian Black men cigarmakers, portrayed in racist caricature, and their English customers criticizing the use of tobacco and the corrupt nature of enslaved labor. The cigarmakers, attired in sarongs or loinclothes and some with caps, speak in the vernacular, "You mak'a nice ting for Massa Poodle to suck." They soak tobacco, which is dripping wet and giving off a stench, in a large barrel labeled "hospital tub," and in their own urine and vomit to produce "high flavored" cigars. In the left, a Black man vomits into a basin filled with tobacco leaves and says, "What a tink! de smell mak'a me sick." In the right, a man squats and urinates into another basin filled with tobacco. Horrified British dandies look on while one comments, "Oh the Negers, is that the way they make the high flavored cigars, I'll never Suck another."
Notes Title from duplicate copies at the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan and The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Purchase 1991.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Cigar industry -- West Indies, British.
Cigar makers -- West Indies, British.
Dandies -- British.
Men, Black -- West Indies, British.
Racism in popular culture.
Slave labor -- West Indies, British.
Urination.
Vomiting.
Black men -- West Indies, British.
Enslaved labor -- West Indies, British.
Enslaved men -- West Indies, British.
Enslavers -- West Indies, British.
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Political cartoons -- 1820-1830.
Printer Fores, S.W., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1827 [P.9345]
Accession number P.9345