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A GOLD-MOUNTED GREY AGATE INTAGLIO AND A GOLD-MOUNTED CORNELIAN SEAL
The first engraved with an idealised female head, signed Wray Fec,
circa 1770, entwined swing handle, the cornelian seal engraved with a chained blackamoor slave inscribed 'Am I not a man, am I not your brother', tapering back, circa 1780
Robert Bateman Wray (d.1799), British Gem engraver. See L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, 1980 reprint, p.555. For another version of this subject by Wray cf. G. Lippold, Gemmen und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit, Stuttgart, 1922, p.155.
The Abolition of Slavery Act passed by Parliament 25 March 1807 (2)
The first engraved with an idealised female head, signed Wray Fec,
circa 1770, entwined swing handle, the cornelian seal engraved with a chained blackamoor slave inscribed 'Am I not a man, am I not your brother', tapering back, circa 1780
Robert Bateman Wray (d.1799), British Gem engraver. See L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, 1980 reprint, p.555. For another version of this subject by Wray cf. G. Lippold, Gemmen und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit, Stuttgart, 1922, p.155.
The Abolition of Slavery Act passed by Parliament 25 March 1807 (2)