A reverse glass painted mezzotint depicting Africa and America Published by W.B. Walker, London, August 20, 1807

The scene depicting representations of Africa and America presented as native figures in a wild landscape, Africa holding a spear and paper inscribed, "Slave Trade Abolish'd 1806," America holding an American flag and pointing to memorial of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; period frame.

(10 in. x 14 in. (sight))

Provenance

Property of a New York collector.

Note

This print commemorates the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807. An example is found in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg, object no. 1997-41.

Literature

For reference, see Margolin, Sam, "'And Freedom to the Slave': Antislavery Ceramics, 1787-1865," Ceramics in America (2002), fig. 22.

12 in. x 15 3/4 in. (frame)