Slavery [graphic].

Description

Title: Slavery [graphic].
Published / Created: publish'd according to a late act, [1738]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum online catalogue.
Four columns of quotation below image and on either side of title: This fortress built by Nature for her self, against infection and the hand of War ... Shakespears [sic] K. Richard 2d.
Temporary local subject terms: Spanish flag -- English flag -- British lion -- Ploughs -- English merchants as slaves -- Male costume: Spanish captain -- Whips -- Spanish War of 1738 -- Pirates: Guarda Costas -- Robert Jenkins, fl. 1731-1738 -- Captain Fandino, fl. 1738 (cut off Jenkins's ear).
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.1 x 30 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1738
Etchings England London 1738
Watermarks (Paper) L V G.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Subject (Topic): Anglo-Spanish War, 1739-1748
Ships
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Caricatures and cartoons
Anglo-Spanish War, 1739-1748
Ships
England > 1738
England > London > 1738
L V G.

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