The abolition of the slave trade, or, The inhumanity of dealers in human flesh exemplified in the cruel treatment of a young negro girl of 15 for her virjen [sic] modesty [graphic].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Pub April 10, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Picca[dilly]
[10 April 1792] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 28 x 37 cm
- Notes:
- Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Maggs; August 1964; Acquisitions no.: 964-8-1-20.
Watermark: I Taylor.
'Captn Kimber's' in title erased and replaced in contemporary hand with 'the cruel.'
Mounted to 37 x 49 cm. - Abstract:
- On the deck of a slave ship a negro girl is suspended by her ankle by a British sailor as the captain prepares to whip her with a chain. In the background two other sailors wander off indifferently on the right and on the left a group of slaves sit cowering.
- Associated Names:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? [Printmaker]
Fores, S. W. [Publisher] - Topics:
- Kimber, John
Punishment & torture
Slave ships
Slave trade
Whips - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1792
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1792
Watermarks (Paper) -- I Taylor - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 792.04.10.03
- Orbis Record:
- 7815398
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr07442
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10732762
- PID:
- digcoll:550024
