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Washing the blackamoor   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: S W Fores
Title
Washing the blackamoor
Description
English: Lady Jersey sits in an arm-chair leaning back with a pained expression while two ladies wash her face which has a mixed race complexion. A miniature of the Prince hangs at her waist. The Prince of Wales (left) crouches at her feet in profile to the right, holding out a basin in both hands. He says: "Another Scrub & then!! take more water." She says: "Does it look any whiter." The lady on the right holds a scrubbing-brush and puts a soap-ball to Lady Jersey's face, saying, "You may as well attempt to remove the Island of Jersey to the Highest Mountain in Wales." The other (left), who wipes the face with a towel, says: "This stain will remain for ever." On the extreme left, standing in a doorway, is the Princess of Wales; she looks at Lady Jersey with a pleased expression, saying, "It vont do she must put on anoder face." She wears three feathers in her hair with the motto 'Ich dien'. On the extreme right is a dressing-table; beneath it sits a dog with an amused expression. 24 July 1795.
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Caroline of Brunswick
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 259 millimetres
Width: 362 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6457
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Lady Jersey, the Prince's mistress, see BMSat 8485, was one of four Ladies of the Bedchamber to the Princess, and was at this time in attendance on her at Brighton. 'Lond. Chron.', 2, 16, 20 July 1795. She was not dismissed till after the separation between the Prince and Princess. Reproduced, Paston, Pl. clxxvii.

For discussion, see Temi Odumosu, "Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes, White Humour" (Harvey Miller) 2017, chapter 2, “ ‘What a nice bit!’: The Comic ‘sable mistress’ and her Suitors”, p. 115.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6457
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