- Title:
- African Hospitality
- Date:
- 1791
- Medium:
- Mezzotint, printed in color, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 22 1/4 x 29 1/4in. (56.5 x 74.3cm), Plate: 18 3/4 x 25 1/2in. (47.6 x 64.8cm), and Image: 18 1/4 x 25 3/8in. (46.4 x 64.5cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, below image, lower left: "Painted by G. Morland"; below image, lower center left: "Dauntless they plunge amidst the vengeful waves, | And snatch from death the lovely sinking fair_"; below image, lower center: "AFRICAN HOSPITALITY"; below: "London Publish'd Feby 1st 1791 by J.R. Smith King Street Covent Garden"; below image, lower center right: "Their friendly efforts lo! each Briton saves! | Perhaps their future Tyrants now they spare."; below image, lower right: "Engraved by J R Smith Mezzotinto Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.284
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- African | arrows | child | historical subject | mother | ocean | sea | ship | shipwreck | spear | storm
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Figures of empire : slavery and portraiture in eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain, organized by the Yale Center for British Art and curated by Esther Chadwick and Meredith Gamer, PhD candidates in the History of Art at Yale University and Cyra Levenson , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2014, p. 43, V 2556 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42019
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Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812, British, African Hospitality, 1791
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