The Fortunate TRANSPORT.

Date1760-1780

MediumBlack and white line engraving

DimensionsOH: 11 1/4" x OW: 15 3/4" (includes false margins); Plate H: 8" x W: 12 3/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1975-8

DescriptionThe text accompanying the four scenes read, clockwise from the top left: "With Child by the Under Turnkey, put/ on Board a Lighter, from thence into/ a Transport Ship bound for Virginia./ Whipp'd during Dinner/ her Master boasting that no Monarch upon Earth had so fine/ Musick as he facied her/ cries. In the Intreim the/ Justice Releasing & takes her home./ Her usage to her Free-born English Servants/ is as they do Negroes and Felons in the Plan/ tations tho' She felt the Mesery herself./ Remember M.rs Branch & her Daugh.r/ Rob Theif or the Lady of y.e Gold Watch Polly Haycock"