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The Torments inflicted by the Dutch on the English in Amboyna

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The Torments inflicted by the Dutch on the English in Amboyna

Published

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1760]

etching
image: 104 x 172 mm; sheet: 114 x 177 mm
Peel 2614
Notes
Top portion of an etching issued as an illustration in "The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure," July, 1760, page 33 (facing).
Library's copy is a fragment, consisting of the upper panel of a design consisting of two panels, the lower one with caption reading: The condition of the English in the Dungeon, and their Execution.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

The Amboyna Massacre; an English prisoner being tortured by the Dutch; upper panel of two.. Cf. British Museum online catalog.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints