John Lewis Marks was a British caricaturist, etcher, lithographer, and print publisher. He began working as a caricaturist from at least 1814, initially for other publishers, especially Thomas Tegg, but later usually published the works himself. His business was located on Long Lane from 1832 to 1855. Upon his death in 1855, his publishing business was continued by his widow Sarah and her children until at least 1893, trading as S. Marks & Sons.<\/p>\n
Full publication information: London Pub’d by J.L. Marks Long Lane Smithfield.<\/p>\n
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“J. Lewis Marks (Biographical details).” British Museum.<\/em> 2017. http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/research\/search_the_collection_database\/term_details.aspx?bioId=115809 (16 August 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Lewis Marks (c.1796 – 1855) (artist and lithographer) Satirical Victorian era caricature print of a plump, aristocratic German woman dancing with a grinning black man in what are apparently servant\u2019s clothes. The caption spoofs the woman\u2019s pretensions to compare herself to Queen Victoria, whose husband was Prince Albert: \u201cDear Albert, arter all there\u2019s nothing like the Valtz! I vonders if the Kiveen feels the same delighful [sic] sensations when she\u2019s Valtzing with her Albert, as I dos?\u201d By the time this print was likely made (after 1833) slavery had been abolished throughout the British Empire. Nonetheless, the portrayal of Albert\u2019s wide eyes, broad smile, and love of dancing are typical of caricatures of persons of African descent of that era. This print is apparently rare; we were unable to locate any other examples of it.<\/p>\n Product description continues below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20753,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5051,6779],"product_tag":[7636,4491,7048,1054,2029,7705,124,2202,475,1610,867,7703,7704,2140,1111],"class_list":{"0":"post-20750","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-archive-sold-history-people","7":"product_cat-genre","8":"product_tag-african-american","9":"product_tag-albert","10":"product_tag-antique-print","11":"product_tag-art","12":"product_tag-artist","13":"product_tag-black-americana","14":"product_tag-british","15":"product_tag-caricature","16":"product_tag-english","17":"product_tag-humor","18":"product_tag-lithograph","19":"product_tag-marks","20":"product_tag-queen-victoria","21":"product_tag-satire","22":"product_tag-victorian","23":"post","24":"post-with-thumbnail","25":"post-with-thumbnail-large","27":"first","28":"instock","29":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/20750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/20750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40473,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/20750\/revisions\/40473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=20750"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=20750"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=20750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDear Albert<\/strong>
\nJ.L.Marks, London: c. 1832-1855
\nSigned in matrix lower right: JLM
\nHand-colored lithograph
\n10.25 x 8 inches<\/p>\n