America! of wealth thou modern mine

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“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.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker.
  • Title: America! of wealth thou modern mine … [graphic] / Amiconi pinxt ; Moor fecit.
  • Edition: [State 2].
  • Publication: London : Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, [approximately 1765]

Catalog Record

765.00.00.02.1+

Acquired February 2024

Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family

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An album of illustrations by various artists, probably compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family. The album contains views of coastlines and ports including Port Eliot, home of Mordaunt friends the Eliots of Port Eliot, in the Parish of St. Germans, Cornwall, drawings of ruins, rural scenes with livestock, and a pencil portrait of a girl aged about 10.

  • Creator: Mordaunt family, collector.
  • Title: [Drawings compiled by a member of the Mordaunt family] [art original].
  • Production: [England], [between 1815 and 1829]

Catalog Record

724 815M

Acquired May 2024