In 1807 when the bill banning the trade in slaves in British dominions was finally passed, William Holland published a series of prints aimed as an attack on colonial exploitation. It mocks the idleness, luxury and pretension of the planter class. Here the planters want to hunt, but can do so only by having their prey driven to where they are sitting, while their black servants struggle to carry unfeasibly large glasses of sangaree to them.

'J.S.', the artist of this image is likely to be James Sayers (1748-1823).