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The Negroe at the Place of Execution
Etching, which contains historical and offensive terms, entitled 'The Negroe at the Place of Execution,' by W. Skelton after C.R. Ryley, published by T. Hookham, Bond Street, November 1, 1787. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection.
Inscribed below the image: 'Close by my hut, I saw a Slave quite spent with toil & hunger, hold out to her child a dry and shrivell'd nipple. She is there among the Crowd. That melancholy woman yonder, that holds up her child.'
Inscribed below the image: 'Close by my hut, I saw a Slave quite spent with toil & hunger, hold out to her child a dry and shrivell'd nipple. She is there among the Crowd. That melancholy woman yonder, that holds up her child.'
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Object Details
| ID: | ZBA2514 |
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| Collection: | Special collections |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Skelton, William; Ryley, C. R. Hookham, T. |
| Date made: | 1 November 1787 |
| People: | Skelton, William; Ryley, C. R. Hookham, T. |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 156 mm x 124 mm; Image: 120 mm x 72 mm |