Primrose [graphic] : The celebrated piebald boy, a native of the West Indies; publicly [sic] shewn in London 1789. Bobey, John Richardson Primrose, b. 1774. Human curiosities -- England. People with disabilities -- England. Men, Black -- England. Enslaved persons -- England. Racism in popular culture. Vitiligo. Black men -- England Enslaved men -- England. Full-length portrait of John Richardson Primrose Bobey, a young Black man with the pigmentation disorder vitiligo, born enslaved in Jamaica, and inspected and exhibited as a specimen of science throughout England. Shows the young man standing on a shoreline. He stands with palm trees in the distance. He is dressed in a loincloth knotted on his left hip and adorned with tassels. White patches are visible on his legs, torso, and down the center of his head. In his right hand, he holds up a captioned portrait broadside of himself as a boy and points to it with his left hand bent at the elbow and from in front of his waist. The broadside depicts the very young Bobey with primarily white skin above text reading "A Child born at Gros Islet, in the Island of St. Lucia, of Black Parents, Taken from a model of the infant colored from nature," and at the museum of T. Pole, Surgeon, Grace Church, in London." In adulthood in London, Bobey advocated for his freedom from enslavement and was a proprietor of a menagerie and a member of several societies, including the Free Masons. Title from item. Manuscript note on recto: Presented T. Pole Surgeon, London, to the Library of Philadelphia. Publication information inferred from broadside illustrated in image and address of London publishers Wm. Darton & Jos. Harvey. Noted in LCP Minutes, v. 3, p. 230-231. Biographies of sitter in Karl Pearson, A monograph on Albinism (London: Cambridge University Press, 1911-1913) and William Granger, The new wonderful museum, and extraordinary magazine: ... (London: Printed for R.S. Kirby, 1804), v. 2, p. 711-714. Pole, a Philadelphia-born Quaker physician, was also an artist who illustrated his own text "An Anatomical Instructor, an Illustration of the Modern and Most Approved Methods of Preparing and Preserving the Different Parts of the Human Body, and of Quadrupeds, by Injection, Corrosion, ... (London, 1790). 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. Descripton revised 2021. Access points revised 2021. Gift of Thomas Pole, 1790. RVCDC London: Printed and sold at [Wm. Darton & Jos. Harvey?] No. 55 Graceh. Strt ENG. London. 1789 Printer Darton & Harvey (London, England), printer. Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829, publisher. Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829, donor. Printer: Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829, publisher. Provenance: Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829, donor. [ca. 1789] Broadsides -- 1780-1790. Portrait prints -- 1780-1790. Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1780-1790. 1 print : hand-colored engraving ; 34 x 23 cm (13.25 x 9 in.) digitool:128584 Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT. PRINT *portrait prints - Primrose [901.F.27] 901.F.27