A page from the journal of John Newton mb-code IH207814 satirical print showing a market

satirical print showing a market scene at Billingsgate fish market

The room was at Zorgvlied near the Hague in the Netherlands

upon which is a pyramid of coloured billiard or snooker balls in a triangular rack

'A Poor Sweep

while the other was taken to New York and erected in Central Park in 1881

A page from the journal of John Newton mb-code IH207814 satirical print showing a marketA page from the journal of John Newton, 1750 1754 (1965). John Newton (1725 1807) was a slave trader from 1750 1754, but he later became a priest and abolitionist. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.