35 min
The BP2 Podcast Episode 6: Billy Waters in The New Union Club (1819) The BP2 Podcast
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The Black Presence in British Portraiture discussed in this episode of the BP2 Podcast commemorates the 200th anniversary of the death of the Black beggar Billy Waters in 1823 as depicted in the 1819 cartoon The New Union Club: Being a Representation of what took place at a celebrated Dinner, given by a celebrated society by George Cruikshank and Frederick Marryat
Chaired by Gretchen Gerzina Paul Murray Kendall Professor of Biography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Billy Waters and The New Union Club cartoon are discussed by the historian and author Temi Odumosu and curator and author S. I. Martin
The description of Billy Waters and The New Union Club and the poem are read by Ebun Culwin
Picture
The New Union Club: Being a Representation of what took place at a celebrated Dinner, given by a celebrated society by George Cruikshank and Frederick Marryat
Reading
The description of Billy Waters and The New Union Club by Gretchen Gerzina and Michael Ohajuru
Poem
Black Billy Waters, at His Pitch Adelphi Theatre, London, 1790s By Rita Dove
Music
Minuet by Ignatius Sancho revised and arranged by Ben Park
Musicians
Cello- Rebecca Jordan, Violin- Buffy Rowe, Vocal Sarah Dacey , Bass and Harpsichord-Ben Park
The Black Presence in British Portraiture discussed in this episode of the BP2 Podcast commemorates the 200th anniversary of the death of the Black beggar Billy Waters in 1823 as depicted in the 1819 cartoon The New Union Club: Being a Representation of what took place at a celebrated Dinner, given by a celebrated society by George Cruikshank and Frederick Marryat
Chaired by Gretchen Gerzina Paul Murray Kendall Professor of Biography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Billy Waters and The New Union Club cartoon are discussed by the historian and author Temi Odumosu and curator and author S. I. Martin
The description of Billy Waters and The New Union Club and the poem are read by Ebun Culwin
Picture
The New Union Club: Being a Representation of what took place at a celebrated Dinner, given by a celebrated society by George Cruikshank and Frederick Marryat
Reading
The description of Billy Waters and The New Union Club by Gretchen Gerzina and Michael Ohajuru
Poem
Black Billy Waters, at His Pitch Adelphi Theatre, London, 1790s By Rita Dove
Music
Minuet by Ignatius Sancho revised and arranged by Ben Park
Musicians
Cello- Rebecca Jordan, Violin- Buffy Rowe, Vocal Sarah Dacey , Bass and Harpsichord-Ben Park
35 min