Venus as a black woman slave travelling on a shell across the Atlantic from Angola to the West Indies. Engraving by W. Grainger, 1794, after T. Stothard.

  • Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
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1794
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11278i
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Venus as a black woman slave travelling on a shell across the Atlantic from Angola to the West Indies. Engraving by W. Grainger, 1794, after T. Stothard. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The subject of a poem 'The sable Venus: an ode' by Isaac Teale, printed in Edwards, op. cit., pp. 32-38

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1794

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1 print : engraving

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The voyage of the sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies. T. Stothard pinx.t ; W. Grainger sculp.t

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Wellcome Collection 11278i

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