Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, A Sacrifice to Slavery, Dedicated without Permission to the Puppet Player in Downing Street, 1787
- Title:
- A Sacrifice to Slavery, Dedicated without Permission to the Puppet Player in Downing Street
- Date:
- 1787
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 7/8in. (19.1 x 30.2cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center left: "Curtain of Futurity | Ruins of the Ancient British House of Parliament Destroy'd on D. 1784 - 1785 &c."; center: "Petition for readers | 'The day is mine in spite of your Petitions' | Duplicity W Bliful"; center right: "Altar of Slavery erected in a few years by the Unhappy Politician"; lower left: "Liberty"; lower right: "3rd. An Open Violation of the rights of Election | 2nd. A Venal majority in a pack'd Parliament | 1st. Step Dissolving of the Parliament of the People."; lettered below image, lower center: "A Sacrifice to Slavery, Dedicated Without Permission to the Puppet Player in Downing Street | London Published by G. Humphrey No. 48 Long Acre Jany. 8th, 1787."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1080
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42417
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