ANTI-SLAVERY INTEREST. A PAIR OF COLOURED MEZZOTINTS

ANTI-SLAVERY INTEREST. A PAIR OF COLOURED MEZZOTINTS

AFTER GEORGE MORLAND, ENGRAVED BY J. R. SMITH, C.1814

titled 'Slave Trade' and 'African Hospitality', each in a later glazed parcel gilt frame, the backs with printed trade labels for 'The Parker Gallery, 3 Albermarle Street London' (2)

47.5 x 64cm

Catalogue Note

The first image shows the brutality of a captive slave being beaten and separated from his wife and child. The second is of African natives saving a white English family from a storm that has shipwrecked them. An anti-slavery polemic in the form of a pair of powerful allegorical engravings.