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In the 1830s the artist William Henry Hunt exhibited a series of twenty such images at the Old Water-Colour Society in London. These were later produced as lithographs and published as <i>Hunt’s Comic Sketches</i> (1844). The series included two images of black children. This image, which was originally exhibited as ‘Miss Jem-ima Crow’ but re-titled ‘Miss Jim-Ima Crow – A West Indian Cinderella’, and a companion piece ‘Jim Crow’, re-titled ‘Master James Crow – Out of his Element’ (museum number E.332-1901).\r\n\r\nBoth works appear to have been painted from living models who have been posed with studio props to suggest a narrative. Jim-Ima Crow (whose name references ‘Jim Crow’ the comic blackface act first seen in London in 1836, pictured on a poster above Jim-Ima here) kneels by the hearth, bellows in hand, tending the fire and the coffee pot. 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