ISBN9780300248067:f0298-01

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Description: Description of a Slave Ship

TitleDescription of a Slave Ship

Creator name (description)Printed by James Phillips

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1789

Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodcut and letterpress broadside

Dimensions23 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (60.3 × 50.2 cm)

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/3429461

Accession numberFolio BrSides By6 1789

SubjectsSlave shipsAntislavery movements--Great BritainBroadsides--18th centuryTransatlantic slave trade in artMiddle passage

Statusfor the London Committee

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Chapter 2. Form: Essential Elements

Cheryl Finley

Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

THE PLYMOUTH COMMITTEE AND WILLIAM ELFORD created the archetype for future renderings of the crowded lower deck of a slave ship, which would hold the public’s memory of the Middle Passage...

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Cheryl Finley

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.57-86

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00260.003

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Chapter subject tags:Slave shipsMirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de, 1749-1791Wadström, Carl Bernhard, 1746-1799Transatlantic slave trade in artMiddle passageBroadsides--18th centuryPropaganda, Abolitionist

Catalogue: Jamaica, Britain, and Slavery

Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

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Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.263-309

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.017

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