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Images from the collections

Images about Black people - Great Britain

10 images from works
  • A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.
  • A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
  • A London dentist extracting a tooth from a woman's mouth; her female companion and the dentist's black servant-boy are present. Coloured mezzotint after Robert Dighton, ca. 1784.
  • A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
  • A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
  • A surgeon and his black assistant letting blood from a lady's arm. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1780.
  • A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.
  • Billy Waters, a one-legged busker. Coloured engraving by T.L. Busby.
  • The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house. Etching after John Leech, 1845.
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Works from the collections

11 works

    • Books

    Black and British : a forgotten history / David Olusoga.

    David Olusoga | Date: 2016
    • Books

    The heart of the race : Black women's lives in Britain / Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe ; foreword by Lola Okolosie.

    Beverley Bryan | Date: 2018
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    A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.

    | Date: 1 January 1803 | Reference: 10980i
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    A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

    | Reference: 10736i
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    A coachman, a cook and a household servant in a state of intoxication refuse to open the door of their quarters to their master. Etching by James Bretherton after T. Orde Powlett.

    Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton | Date: 23d Feb.y 1774 | Reference: 29647i
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