The slave trade

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William Dent
active 1783-1793
The slave trade
etching
image: 206 x 410 mm; sheet: 224 x 414 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1613
Published: 
[London] : Pubd as the Act directs for the Proprietor, by W. Moore, No.48 New Bond Street, & W .Dickie, opposite Exeter Change, Strand, April 15th 1788.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Caption title.
Attributed to William Dent by BM Satires.

Summary: 

Print shows the King standing in profile to the left, looking upwards, surrounded by obsequious ministerialists and others. Pitt is prone at his feet kissing his toe. Dundas, in Highland dress, kneels behind him, kissing his posterior. Behind Dundas, stooping low, are two lawyers, the Attorney-General (Arden) and the Solicitor-General (Macdonald). A third man on the extreme right bows low. In front of the King and behind Pitt, Kenyon kneels with clasped hands. Next him is Wilkes. Two men bowing on the right are Sydney (left) and probably Carmarthen (Duke of Leeds). Two other persons are partly visible, one of whom appears to be a bishop. The heads and hands of all but the King are shaded to indicate a dark complexion. Cf. BM catalog.

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