Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Age of Horace Walpole
Item
West India Luxury!!, 1803
Title
West India Luxury!!, 1803
Description
West India Luxury!! depicts the doings of a white male colonist in the British Caribbean and, presumably, his white "creole" (island-born) wife, mocking in particular the laziness that the institution of slavery was thought to have produced among colonists there. The print alludes to the domestic relationships into which white male colonists forced enslaved women and into which Englishmen in India coerced colonized women. Labeling the white male planter "A West India Nabob," the artist links British imperial rule in the West and East Indies –a "nabob" being an Englishman who acquired wealth working for the East India Company –and insinuates that some of this "Nabob's" wealth is in enslaved women. Catalog Record
Contributor
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library
Creator
Anonymous
