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Description: | Etching 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.'
caption: The Negroe at the Place of Execution | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Hookham Skelton W. T. Ryley C. R. | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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