Slave Trade
1791
Artist, British, 1752 - 1812
John Raphael Smith after George Morland
Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 48.2 x 66.5 cm (19 x 26 3/16 in.)
sheet: 48.5 x 66.5 cm (19 1/8 x 26 3/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2001.118.62
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Catalogue Raisonné
Chaloner Smith 1884, undescribed
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Afro-Atlantic Histories, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, 2021-2024 (shown in Washington, Los Angeles, and Dallas), no repro.
Bibliography
1884
Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.
1902
Frankau, Julia. John Raphael Smith: His Life and Works. London: MacMillan and Co., 1902.
2021
Pedrosa, Adriano, and Toledo, Tomàs, editors.Afro-Atlantic Histories. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2021-2022.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Painted by G Morland; lower center in plate: SLAVE TRADE / London Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791. by J. R. Smith. King Street Covent Garden; lower right in plate: Engrav'd by J.R. Smith. Mezzotints Engraver. To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; across lower center: lo! the poor Captive with distraction wild / Views his dear Partner torn from his embrace! / A diff'rent Captain buys his Wife and Child / What time can from his Soul such ills erase?
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Wikidata ID
Q76346385