America! of wealth thou modern mine [graphic]

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Title: America! of wealth thou modern mine [graphic]
Creator: Moore, James, 18th cent., printmaker
Contributor: Amiconi, Giacomo, 1675-1752, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, publisher.
Published / Created: [1760?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Abstract: America, shown as a dark-skinned man with a feather head dress, a goat skin drape, an arrow in his left hand, stands on the shore under a palm tree. An enslaved person in a feather head dress kneels at his feet. An alligator walks towards them. A ship is in the distance. Also in the background is a raised shelter with a hammock inside. One man stands by the hammock and two others sit in it.
Description: Title from the first line of verse below image.
Printmaker from Chaloner Smith.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record; before 1763. See J.C. Smith.
Four lines of verse below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Personifications -- Hammocks -- Native peoples.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 25 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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