Alice or the Black Riband

Allegory. Original etching. ca 1740. Very good condition. Old hand-colouring. 8,5x7cm. Framed: 18x15cm. Sold with P020149, P020150, P020151. DHL shipping only.

Varia. Original steel engraving drawn by E.T. Parris, engraved by H. Egleton. 1835. Very good condition. Hand-coloured. 11x9cm. Matted.

England. Original colour mezzotint, engraved by J. R. Smith after W. R. Bigg. 1798. Good condition, wear consistent with age and use. 54x41cm. Framed: 70x59cm. DHL shipping only. In the 1782 and 1784 versions of this print, the boy on the side is a young black slave. In the meantime, antislavery sentiment have grown in Great Britain: in the 1798 printing, the young slave became a white houseboy.