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| CONTENT WARNING | OFFENSIVE AND OPPRESSIVE LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY
This catalogue and the archives it describes contain highly offensive and oppressive language. Some of the language has been included in the catalogue description to publicly reflect the attitudes of the time the records were written |
| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/1/97/2 |
| Former Reference | D5459/1/59 |
| Title | Colliander : a Lilliputian "Negro" servant |
| Date | [c1780-1809] |
| Description | Caricature portrait of a Lilliputian figure. She wears a white dress, with a red and white striped sash, cape and shoes, and a cap with lace flaps over the ears. Available on CD 159. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | Text reads:
"Which is most grim? - pray judge and see | My master Thurlobo, or me"
The reference to 'Thurlobo' is probably to Chancellor Thurlow, who was caricatured as 'Thurlebo the Chancellor of Lilliput' in one of a series of political caricatures [BM Sat 7879] called 'The Lilliputian World', designed by Woodward and published in 1791. |
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| Physical Description | Coloured drawing; 242 x 200mm. Portrait. |
| Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Term | Slavery |
| Slaves |
| Forced labour |
| Black peoples |
| Oppression |
| Works of art |
| Caricatures |
| Racism |
| Image | 
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