Print of A Slave Family Being Separated by Slavers on the Shore

Price: $950.00

Unbound. Late 18th or early 19th Century image of a family of African slaves being separated by slavers on the shore. Lacquered paper mounted on stretched canvas. Approximately 26" x 18". Old repairs to the canvas on verso, old label of antiquarian bookseller Howard S. Mott on the back, small cracks and holes in the image. A male slave is beaten while his wife and children are removed from him. Apparently a known print (we can find the image online but no further information about it).

Item #350399

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Item #350399 Print of A Slave Family Being Separated by Slavers on the Shore