The horrid torture of impalment [sic] alive as a punishment on runaway slaves [graphic]Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmakerSep. 9, 1808.engA punishment meted out to runaway slaves in Dutch Surinam as recorded by StedmanTitle etched below image.Formerly bound in as frontispiece to: Seizure of the ship Industry by a conspiracy and the consequent sufferings of Capt. James Fox and his companions. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [1810?].From a series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Possibly detached from: Lewis Walpole Library 86 810 Sc462.