America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]

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Title: America! of wealth thou modern mine ... [graphic]
Creator: Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker
Contributor: Amigoni, Jacopo, 1682-1752, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1765]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Abstract: "Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from first line of verses engraved beneath image.
Verses continue: ... what if by conquest we possess thy shore, thy savages reveng'd should less repine, since we're the slaves of thy corrupting ore.
Second state, with altered imprint statement; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.570.
See Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, volume 3, page 941 for mention of an earlier state of this series of four plates "Quarters of the World", "Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden Head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street".
One of a series of four allegorical prints, the others depicting Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge and with thin margins on the other three edges.
Provenance: Editio Altera Rare Books & Manuscripts; February 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English