The Slough of Despond----; Vide - The Patriots Progress
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 3/8in. (22.5 x 34cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image upper center: "'Help! Help! will no kind Power lend a hand | to deliver me? Oh! what whill become of me? all my | former Friends have forsaken me! if I try to go on, I sink | deeper in the Filth; & my feet are stuck so fast in the Mire, | that I can not get back 'tho I try; Ah, me! this Burden | upon my Back overwhelm's me, & presses me down! I shall | Rise no more! I am lost for ever, & shall never see the Promis'd Land!!'"; upper right: "Libertas | Knock, & it shall be opened | The Straight Gate; of the wat to the Patriots Paradice"; center left: "Contents | French Gold, French Loyalty, French Daggers, And Crimes, more num'rous than the sands, upon the Ocean's shore."; lower center: "Gospel of Liberty [...]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection