Barbarities in the West Indias [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Barbarities in the West Indias [graphic].
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [23 April 1791]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. April 23d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"From a cylindrical stone vat filled with steaming liquid protrude the legs and arms of a negro, who is being held under the surface by a fierce-looking overseer with the handle of a scourge. The overseer stands on a ladder (right), saying, "B-t your black Eyes! what you can't work because you're not well? - but I'll give you a warm bath, to cure your Ague, & a Curry-combing afterwards to put Spunk into you." On the wall above his head are nailed up, in a row with a bird, a fox, and ferrets (vermin), a black arm and two ears. Through a doorway (right) palm-trees are suggested. Beneath the title is etched: 'Mr "Frances [sic] relates "Among numberless other acts of cruelty daily practised, "an English Negro Driver, because a young Negro thro sickness was unable to "work, threw him into a copper of Boiling-Sugar-juice, & after keeping him, "steeped over head & Ears for above Three Quarters of an hour in the boiling "liquid, whipt him with such severity, that it was near Six Months before he "recover'd of his Wounds & Scalding"------Vide Mr Frances Speech, corroborated by Mr Fox, Mr Wilberforce &c &c.'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from text in image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.
Temporary local subject terms: Barbarities -- Barbarities to blacks -- Overseers -- West Indies -- Enslaved people -- Motion to abolish slave trade, April 18, 1791 -- Allusion to Charles James Fox, 1749-1806 -- Allusion to William Wilberforce, 1459-1832 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818.
Matted to 36 x 49 cm.
Watermark. - Provenance
- B. Daniell & Son; October 1962;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 26 x 35 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 791.04.23.01
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1791
England > London > 1791
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8962408
- Object ID (OID)
- 10732566