"The settling family attacked by savages".

Hand-coloured mezzotint, 60,5 x 50,8 cm, wove paper 68 x 56 cm (damp stains in lower margin, repaired tear in the image at bottom left, min. repairs along platemark).

Under gilt passe-partout and mahogany frame (not studied outside frame).

Violent scene of a settlers family in the Americas in conflict with Native People. A Native person has just been shot, while others are holding their handweaponry ready to strike. The scene is set near the settlers house in a tropical forest. Keating (London? 1762-1842) was a pupil of William Dickinson, worked with mezzotint and stipple engraving. In 1790, he joined his father's Catholic bookselling business, which he eventually took over; he also published his own Catholic books.