File:The Saturnalia (Pinwell).png
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English: Illustration for the poem "The Saturnalia" by Walter Thornbury, Once a Week magazine, Volume 8, page 154. The Roman festival Saturnalia was a topsy-turvy day when slaves dressed up as masters. In this 1863 poem, Thornbury, by way of a racialized depiction of the festival, imagines the horrors of licence that would ensue if modern-day slaves got the upper hand on their masters. The illustrator G. J. Pinwell lays out the implications by adding peacock feathers and a mirror (symbols of vanity) and a monkey (symbol of both licentiousness and mindless imitation). |
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| Author | George John Pinwell (1842-1875), engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909) | ||||
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| current | 00:25, 18 June 2019 | | 1,137 × 1,579 (5.15 MB) | Levana Taylor | User created page with UploadWizard |
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