Details
Contributor Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Title West India fashionables. [graphic] : On a visit in style. Taking a ride. / J.F.
Publisher London: Published by William Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
Publisher ENG. London. 1807
Date November 1, 1807
Physical Description 1 print: aquatint, hand-colored; sheet 28 x 44 cm (11 x 17 in.)
Description Satiric print mocking the decadent state of West Indian plantation society containing two views depicting enslaved people performing gratuitous tasks for traveling white enslavers. "On a Visit in Style" shows an enslaver, his wife, and her white lady's maid seated in the cab and rear of a horse-drawn gig. The gig displays a crest comprised of a goblet and whips. One enslaved man guides and another steers the horse that is adorned in netting to protect it from flies. An enslaved man and woman follow the carriage. They carry the enslaver's trunks on their heads. Also shows a windmill and sugar refinery in the background. "Taking a Ride" shows a white couple riding on horses, which are adorned with protective netting, past a sugar refinery and enslaved men and women working in a field. The white woman wears a huge bonnet obscuring her face. An enslaved man guides her horse while another holds its tail and uses a branch to fend off flies. The white man who wears an extremely wide-brimmed hat also has an enslaved man fending away flies from his horse's tail. George suggests that the enslaved people are to be assumed as the progeny of the enslaver as they all have the same unusually shaped nose.
Is referenced by George 10805
Notes Publisher's advertisement printed below image: Of Mr. Holland may be had the following West India Prints, Johnny Newcome in the Island of Jamaica_ A Grand Jamaica Ball_ Martial Law in Jamaica_The Blessings of Jamaica_and a Segar Smoking Society in Jamaica. 5s each_A large portrait of Rachel Pringle of Barbadoes 7s. 6_Likewise Gillray's sale of English Beauties in the East Indies 7s 6d.
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.
Purchase 2005.
RVCDC.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 2005, p. 62-65.
Subject Racism in popular culture.
Slaveholders -- West Indies.
Slaveholders -- West Indies -- Attitudes.
Plantation life -- West Indies.
Women slaves -- West Indies.
Enslaved persons -- West Indies -- Social conditions.
Enslaved women -- West Indies.
Enslavers -- West Indies.
Enslavers -- West Indies -- Attitudes.
Enslaved people -- Satire -- West Indies.
Enslavers.
Enslaved people.
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 - 1807-Wes [P.2005.28.2]
Accession number P.2005.28.2