A black slave in Surinam is stretched on a rack as another black man breaks his bones with a wooden stick. Engraving, 1793, after J.G. Stedman.
- Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797.
- Date:
- Decr 2d 1793
- Reference:
- 37910i
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London (St. Paul's Church Yard) : J. Johnson, Decr 2d 1793.
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1 print : engraving ; image 18.2 x 13.2 cm
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The execution of breaking on the rack.
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Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, no. 719.72
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Wellcome Collection 37910i
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