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Black Thorn
This satirical print shows a large European man carrying a whip and smoking a long pipe. Unseen around the corner, an African man waits holding a club. The intertwined characteristics of slave-holding societies, luxury and violence, are parodied and exposed in this print.
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Object Details
| ID: | ZBA2693 |
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| Collection: | Fine art; Special collections |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Tregear, Gabriel Shire |
| Date made: | 1836 |
| Exhibition: | The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire |
| People: | Tregear, Gabriel Shire |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 256 mm x 191 mm; Image: 256 mm x 191 mm |