Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Alternate Title(s):
Am I not a man and a brother?
Published / Created:
England, not before 1787.
Physical Description:
1 signet ring : gold with red stone (jasper?) ; face 28 x 21 mm, band 25 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View catalog record for Clarkson's letter bearing the design of the anti-slavery medallion embossed in black wax.
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12241204
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
The anti-slavery medallion "was modelled by William Hackwood in 1787 for production in black on white jasper, and Wedgwood distributed it freely to those closely concerned with the cause of abolition. At the end of February 1788 Josiah sent a quantity of these cameos to Benjamin Franklin ..."--Reilly.
Exhibition History:
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
Subject Terms:
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846. | Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. | Antislavery movements -- Great Britain. | Black people in art. | Slave trade -- Great Britain.
