Philanthropic Consolations,after loss of the Slave-Bill,1796,William Wilberforce

Title: Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill
Creator(s): Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver
Date Created/Published: 1796 April 4th.
Summary: William Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking cheroots. Horsely, in his bishop's robes, embraces a woman sitting on his knee holding a wine glass. A black servant boy brings in a tray of filled glasses.
Notes:
Catalog of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8793
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: 'Gillray and the Art of Caricature.'
B size color print Exhibited: 'Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn' at the New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y., 2011-2012.
Subjects:
Wilberforce, William,--1759-1833.
Horsley, Samuel,--1733-1806.
Blacks--Great Britain--1790-1800.
Abolition movement--Great Britain--1790-1800.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1790-1800.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1790-1800.
Bookmark /2001695090/
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