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GEOFF HUNT, P.P.R.S.M.A. (British, Contemporary)

"H.M.S. Fantome in pursuit of a Slaver, 30th April 1841"

"H.M.S. Fantome in pursuit of a Slaver, 30th April 1841"

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1. Artist-Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper

Edition of 550, including only 15 Remarques

Image size: 12 x 16 1/2 inches (30.5 x 42 cm)

Paper size: 16 x 21 inches (40.5 x 53 cm)

2. Artist-Signed Limited Edition on Canvas

Edition of 195

Image size: 16 x 22 inches (40.5 x 56 cm)

200 years ago Britain was the first major nation to outlaw slavery. A Royal Navy squadron was established that would patrol the seas of West Africa for the next 60 years: searching and detaining slave ships, liberating some 150,000 enslaved Africans, playing a pivotal role in the suppression of this barbaric practice.

British Navy crew were in despair as they boarded overcrowded, disease-ridden slave ships, and suffered terribly from tropical diseases including yellow fever and malaria...

Geoff Hunt's dramatic print illustrates one of the most desperate actions of the campaign:

"AM... observed a strange Sail bearing ENE. Made Sail in Chase of a Brigantine..." so begins the logbook account of a memorable pursuit by the brig Fantome, Captain Butterfield, on anti-slavery patrol. After a 24-hour chase Fantome caught the runaway and discovered her to be the fast Portuguese slaver Josephina, which had already outrun four other Men of War, and was carrying 290 slaves. A lieutenant and eight men were put on board to conduct the prize to Sierra Leone, where the slaves could be freed.

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