Black Thorn

This satirical print shows a large European man carrying a whip and smoking a long pipe. Unseen around the corner, an African man waits holding a club. The intertwined characteristics of slave-holding societies, luxury and violence, are parodied and exposed in this print.

Object Details

ID: ZBA2693
Collection: Fine art; Special collections
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Tregear, Gabriel Shire
Date made: 1836
Exhibition: The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire; Enslavement and Resistance
People: Tregear, Gabriel Shire
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Measurements: Sheet: 256 mm x 191 mm; Image: 256 mm x 191 mm