The horrid torture of impalment [sic] alive as a punishment on runaway slaves [graphic]

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Title: The horrid torture of impalment [sic] alive as a punishment on runaway slaves [graphic]
Alternative Title: Horrid torture of impalment alive as a punishment on runaway slaves
Horrid torture of impalement alive as a punishment on runaway slaves
Creator: Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: Sep. 9, 1808.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by Thos. Tegg
Abstract: A punishment meted out to runaway slaves in Dutch Surinam as recorded by Stedman
Description: Title etched below image.
Formerly bound in as frontispiece to: Seizure of the ship Industry by a conspiracy and the consequent sufferings of Capt. James Fox and his companions. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [1810?].
From a series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Possibly detached from: Lewis Walpole Library 86 810 Sc462.
Provenance: Purchased from Grosvenor Prints; July 2016.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.5 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Frontispieces
Aquatints
Material: aquatint with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, James, Captain.
Subject (Topic): Eskimos
Death
Families
Fugitive slaves
Punishment & torture
Enslaved people
Soldiers
British
Subjects: Eskimos
Fox, James, Captain
Death
Families
Fugitive slaves
Punishment & torture
Enslaved people
Soldiers > British

Access: Public
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