A Grand Jamaica ball! or the Creolean hop a la muftee; as exhibeted in Spanish Town – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: A Grand Jamaica ball! or the Creolean hop a la muftee; as exhibeted in Spanish Town, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Grand Jamaica ball! or the Creolean hop a la muftee; as exhibeted in Spanish Town
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Few dance prints of the period name their setting as precisely as this one, which places its satire in Spanish Town, the capital of British-ruled Jamaica. The title promises a "Creolean hop," and the London publisher William Holland issued many caricature prints mocking fashionable manners. The dedication to a lady styled "Custodi morum," or guardian of morals, adds a sly edge, suggesting the ball's excesses were meant as a scandal for polite London society to enjoy. Hand-colored etchings like this gave metropolitan audiences a way to laugh at colonial society from a distance.
| Created / published | London : Published by William Holland No. 50 Oxford Street, 1802. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Satires (Visual works) British 1800-1810.Intaglio prints Hand-colored 1800-1810. |
| Notes | Title from item. Graciously dedicated to the Honble. Mrs. R-n- Custodi morum &c &c. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress)." |
| Subjects | Women--Social life--Jamaica--Spanish Town--1800-1810. British--Social life--Jamaica--Spanish Town--1800-1810. Ballroom dancing--Jamaica--Spanish Town--1800-1810. Balls (Parties)--Jamaica--Spanish Town--1800-1810. Ballrooms--Jamaica--Spanish Town--1800-1810. Jamaicans--1800-1810. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,442 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216956 |
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