BM13043-puzzled-which-to-choose-1818-0015
identifier:
BM13043-puzzled-which-to-choose-1818-0015
title:
Puzzled which to Choose!
date:
October 10, 1818
description:
An African chief displays to a naval officer three women, who stand together, grinning and coy, and absurdly squat and obese, with huge posterior. The officer, Lieut. Lyon, bows in profile to the right, right hand on his breast, staring with humorous and wary appraisal at the women. The chief, who smiles blandly, seated on a low slab, wears a huge nose-ring, a plume of ostrich feathers, and a sword for which his left ear serves as hilt. Immediately behind him is a bodyguard of four warriors holding tall spears on each of which a skull is transfixed. Two grin, one looks with sour possessiveness at the women. All the Africans are naked except for small aprons. Behind the women are more Africans, much amused. Behind Lyon stand an astonished naval officer and two amused military officers; all are in dress uniform. Behind these are grinning sailors and on the extreme left the tips of the bayonets of the escort, with a Union flag. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #13043
format:
26 cm x 35 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2016.01 1818
subject:
George Francis Lyon
subject:
Africa
subject:
Colonization
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Cruikshank, George
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections