A black rebel holds a musket in his right hand as he turns to his left looking up apprehensively. Around his waist is a bandolier with a pouch and a hatchet. At his feet is the skull of a human head. Behind him on the right in the distance are two blacks running in the brush, also armed with rifles
Alternative Title:
Rebel negro armed and on his guard
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from other illustrations in this publication., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., and Plate published for: Stedman, J.G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st 1794 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Enslaved persons, Indians of South America, Rebels, and Rifles
Simon Fraser, eleventh Lord Lovat (1667/8-1747), Jacobite conspirator, army officer, and outlaw is shown sitting on a chair in a jail cell (The Tower of London?), his gouty foot raised on a small stool. He has a pen in his hand and on the table beside him rests an open journal and a box with two ink pots
Description:
Title from caption below image., Approximate date of publication from dealer's description., Six numbered stanzas of verse below title: I. When first the proud Scotchmen rebell'd ..., Text at bottom of plate: Tis conjectur'd by some that this rhetorical apology of old nurses will meet with the desired effect ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
