Details
Contributor Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Title West India luxury!! [graphic] / J.F.
Publisher London : Published by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Publisher ENG. London. 1808
Date April 1808
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; sheet 21 x 31 cm (8 x 12 in.)
Description Satiric print mocking the decadent state of West Indian plantation society containing five vignettes, one with text, depicting slothful white enslavers being lavishly catered to by Black and multiracial enslaved people. Vignettes include: "A West India Nabob" (i.e., man of wealth) as he lounges on his couch, attired in a wide brimmed hat, surrounded by his entourage of enslaved women; enslaved men being used as a "Portable Boot Jack" by their white man enslaver; the white women enslaver showing "Creolean Patience" as she waits for her enslaved marketing person to be told by her enslaved attendant to pick up her nearby fallen needle; the white women enslaver telling "Quashebah come and take my Head in again" from her open window; and a white man enslaver enjoying "One of the Luxuries" of slavery as enslaved women simultaneously comb his hair, wash his feet, fan him, and serve him goblets of wine.
Is referenced by George, 11132
Notes Title from item.
Described in David Kunzle's The Early comic strip: Narrative strips and picture stories in the European broad sheet from c. 1450 to 1825 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), p. 374-5.
Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2000, p. 37-38.
Purchase 2000.
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 Plantation life -- West Indies.
Racially mixed people.
Slaveholders -- West Indies.
Slaveholders -- West Indies -- Attitudes.
Enslaved persons -- West Indies -- Social conditions.
West Indians.
Women slaves -- West Indies.
Black men -- West Indies.
Black women -- West Indies.
Enslaved men -- West Indies.
Enslaved women -- West Indies.
Enslavers -- West Indies.
Women enslavers -- West Indies.
Geographic subject West Indies.
Genre Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1800-1810.
Political cartoons -- Hand-colored -- 1800-1810.
Printer Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political cartoons - 1808-Wes [9455.F]
Accession number 9455.F