Details
Creator Lucas, David, 1802-1881, engraver.
Contributor Rippingille, Alexander, artist.
Lloyd & Hennings, printer.
Hodgson, Boys, & Graves, distributor.
Rippingille, Alexander, artist.
Moon, F.G., publisher.
Lloyd & Hennings, printer.
Title To the friends of negro emancipation, this print is inscribed [graphic] / Painted by Alexr. Rippingille; Engraved by David Lucas; Printed by Lloyds & Hennings; Sold also by Hodgson, Boys, & Graves, 6 Pall Mall Ackerman, Strand, & C. Tilt, Fleet St.
Publisher London : Pubd. by F.G. Moon, Printseller to the King; 20 Threadneedle Street
Publisher ENG. London. 1834
Date August 1, 1834
Physical Description 1 print : aquatint engraving ; sheet 37 x 26 cm (14.5 x 10 in.)
Description Print commemorating Great Britain's passage of legislation, given royal assent in 1834, granting emancipation to the enslaved throughout Great Britain and the British colonies. Depicts near a coast, a joyous free Black man, attired in a sarong, arms held up in celebration. He stands upon a whip surrounded by smiling Black men who bury his shackles; a Black girl who kneels before him; and a Black mother, seated on a bench beside a book, smiles and holds her baby up in the air. Next to them an "Emancipation Notice" has been tacked to a palm tree. In the background, Black people celebrate on the shore as a ship sails away.
Notes Title from item.
Text printed below title: A glorious and happy era on the first of August, bursts upon the Western World; England strikes the manacle from the slave, and bids the bond go free.
Purchase 1969.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Antislavery movements -- Great Britain.
Children, Black.
Freedmen.
Men, Black.
Shackles.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Great Britain -- Colonies.
Smiling.
Women, Black.
Black children.
Black men.
Black women.
Enslaved people.
Free people.
Kneeling female slave.
Genre Abolition prints -- 1830-1840.
Aquatints -- 1830-1840.
Illustrator Rippingille, Alexander, artist.
Printer Moon, F.G., publisher.
Lloyd & Hennings, printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC-Emancipation [7808.F]
Accession number 7808.F