Irish affairs. The absentee ; Colonial slavery. The slave. The planter who murdered the slave!!! The govenor [sic] sorry to punish the murdrers [sic]!!! The M.P.s who approve of the govenor [sic]. The electors who return the M.P.!!!Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker, artist[1 August 1830]engTop image: "Irish Affairs. The Absentee : Scene Naples Enter the Ghosts of Starv'd Irish Peasentry [sic]!!!" On the right four corpse-like figures, one with a hay-rake over his shoulder, emerge from a mist with their arms extended menacingly at the man seated on a sofa (left); the word "starved" appears above the spectral group. The man on the sofa who is facing the group registers terror while the courtesan, oblivious to the apparition, leans towards him, lips puckered, wine glass in hand; a lute is propped beside her and sheet music strewn on the floor at her feet. The room, lit by a triple gas-chandelier, is richly furnished with red draperies, an ornately patterned rug, and a pedestal a table below an the open window is piled with wines and fruit. The window frames a view of the Bay and in the distance, Vesuvius in eruptionLower half of the sheet, a series of five images in two rows, titled "Colonial Slavery". [1] "The Slave": A planter with his back to the viewer raises a whip over his back to flog a prostrate black woman, her head in the lap of a black man, saying, "She dead Massa", to which the Planter responds: "Then I wish I'd sold her that's all." On the left in the distance slaves toil under a palm-tree. [2] Titled "The Planter who Murderd the Slave!!!" A short stout White man stands on a verandah and scowls as he faces the viewer, whip in hand: "Wot are You staring at? Shanta man do as He likes with his own. Ax 'your Duke of N-c-l." On the left in the background lies a black corpse. [3] TItled "The Govenor sorry to punish the murdrers!!!" A man in a military uniform and boots, sits at a desk as he writes 'To the Colonial Secretary'. Above (his letter): "Its' realy a pity to punish such respectable people, the whole Island take part with them". [4] Titled "The M P's who approve of the Govenor" A scene in the Commons. A thin-waisted member speaks, gesturing haughitl as members on the back benches register cynical approval. He says: "We are all Gentlemen, the worthy Govenor's a gentleman the Planters are Gentlemen a Slave's a Slave". [5] Titled: "The Electors who return the M.P!!!" Two men in conversation, one elderly and paunchy, a pen behind his ear, says: "What "sinnifies" It's My Intrest". A younger man on an office-stool covers his face, saying, 'Murderer!!!'"Titles from text above and below the individual images.Attribution to Seymour from statement of responsibility "Designd. & drawn on stone by R. Seymour" on first page of issue for which this image was designed. See British Museum catalogue.Imprint continues: ... where all communications for this work, post paid may be address'd.Six individually titled images on one sheet.