Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver, 1796
Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver, 1796 , 1 print : etching, hand-colored, 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.
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