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Print made by: James Moore

After: Jacopo Amigoni
Published by: Robert Sayer
Title
America
Description
English: Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat's skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state.
Mezzotint
Date circa 1765
date QS:P571,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 355 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2010,7081.570
Notes

From a set (2010,7081.570-573). The plates presumably all went through the same publication history as that listed for Asia and Africa, detailed below.

States [recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database] (i) published by James McArdell and Robert Sayer; lettered with four lines of verse and 'Amiconi Pinx,,t // Moor Fecit. // Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer, opposite Fetter lane Fleet Street' (ii) republished by Sayer alone; publication line altered to 'London Printed for & Sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter lane Fleet Street.'

Listings of the set in sale catalogues Sayer & Bennett, catalogue 1775, 'Fine Prints in Sets', p. 52 number LIII

Sayer, catalogue 1766, p. 91 number 14
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-570
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