IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 311909 accession number: T.1-2022 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 29 November 2022 updated: Wednesday 18 June 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bag, cotton, with simple drawstring fastening, printed on the front in black with a scene of a black woman sitting under a tree holding a child in her arms. To the right stands an overseer wearing a broad-brimmed hat, loose shirt and cravat, short jacket, trousers and shoes. He is carrying a whip. With his left hand he points in the distance to where black enslaved people can be seen hoeing in a field. Printed on the reverse in black is the following verse title: bag NOTES ----- type: history note value: Historical and Collectable online auction, ‘Commemoratives, Fairings, Stevengraphs, Staffordshire Pot Lids and Prattware’ on Tuesday 18 October 2022 (lot 77), from where purchased. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2022 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311909 TECHNIQUES ---------- printed CATEGORIES ------ category: textile accessory DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Female Society for Birmingham maker: Lines, Samuel EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition