Ignatius Sancho married Anne Osborne at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey in December 1758 and they ran a shop in the City of Westminster. This FREE event remembers his family, and his death on 14 December 1780. #eventbrite #IgnatiusSancho https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering-ignatius-sancho-family-tickets-484881673137

"The portrait of Sancho is a rare depiction of an African in eighteenth-century Europe shown not as an enslaved person, servant or caricature, but as a gentleman...[H]e became famous for his correspondence with the author Laurence Sterne and for the grocers that he ran in Westminster. He was the first African to receive an obituary in the British press."
#exhibition #history #portrait #18thcentury #IgnatiusSancho #ThomasGainsborough #LaurenceSterne #GainsboroughsHouse
https://enfilade18thc.com/2022/12/06/exhibition-ignatius-sancho-a-portrait/

"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."

The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66908/66908-h/66908-h.htm#LETTER_LXVII_TO_MR_M_mdash

Sancho corresponded with #LaurenceSterne from 1766. The publication of the letters after Sterne's death made Sancho famous.
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-letters-of-the-late-ignatius-sancho-an-african-1782

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sancho-banneker #hopwag

"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."

The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho (10 June, 1778) who corresponded with Sterne from 21 July 1766. His letters were published in a 1775 edition of Sterne’s Letters, making Sancho famous.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-only-surviving-manuscript-letters-of-ignatius-sancho

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sancho-banneker #hopwag

"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."

The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho (10 June, 1778) who corresponded with Sterne from 21 July 1776. His letters were published in a 1775 edition of Sterne’s Letters, making Sancho famous.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-only-surviving-manuscript-letters-of-ignatius-sancho

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sancho-banneker #hopwag

"If Sterne has had any one great master in his eye—it was Swift, his countryman—the first wit of this or any other nation;—but there is this grand difference between them—Swift excels in grave-faced irony—whilst Sterne lashes his whips with jolly laughter."

The verdict of #IgnatiusSancho (10 June, 1778) who corresponded with Sterne from 21 July 1776. His letters were published in a 1775 edition of Sterne’s Letters (1775), making Sancho famous.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-only-surviving-manuscript-letters-of-ignatius-sancho

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sancho-banneker