Portrait of a black man

'Mezzotint engraving representing a man of colour, half-length, holding in his right hand a jug frothing over label "Fine Ale"; in the other hand is a sheet of paper displaying the following: "30, Rue St. Honoré, Drake's Hotel. Table d'hôte, Roast beef of old England, London, Porter'. On the wall immediately behind the man's head hang two pictures. One represents a racehorse, with jockey mounted; above the picture, "Calembourg," and below, "Property of Mr. J. Drake." The other picture has over it the words "Albuera, 7th Fusiliers Advance." The picture itself represents a regiment of soldiers charging with fixed bayonets; in the foreground a white horse is prancing, held by a groom'. -- Notes and Queries, June 30, 1900, page 516. Mounted in W. Wheater, Historical Record of the Seventh or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Leeds, 1875), formerly owned by Samuel M. Milne, who submitted the query. A reply noted that the regiment had black drummers and that perhaps this man was a veteran who had opened a hotel in Pars. 'Mezzotint engraving representing a man of colour, half-length, holding in his right hand a jug frothing over label "Fine Ale"; in the other hand is a sheet of paper displaying the following: "30, Rue St. Honoré, Drake's Hotel. Table d'hôte, Roast beef of old England, London, Porter'. On the wall immediately behind the man's head hang two pictures. One represents a racehorse, with jockey mounted; above the picture, "Calembourg," and below, "Property of Mr. J. Drake." The other picture has over it the words "Albuera, 7th Fusiliers Advance." The picture itself represents a regiment of soldiers charging with fixed bayonets; in the foreground a white horse is prancing, held by a groom'. -- Notes and Queries, June 30, 1900, page 516. Mounted in W. Wheater, Historical Record of the Seventh or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Leeds, 1875), formerly owned by Samuel M. Milne, who submitted the query. A reply noted that the regiment had black drummers and that perhaps this man was a veteran who had opened a hotel in Pars. Pencil note written in book below image (by Milne); 'Portrait of a coloured person who evidently had been connected with the 7th Fusiliers possibly as servant to an officer (perhaps Sir William Myers) who was killed at Albuera' Small folio. London, Francis Edwards, 1955 Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)