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TitleHouse with Walled Garden

Creator nameBelisario, Isaac Mendes

Creator nationality/cultureJamaican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1844

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor

Dimensions12 3/8 × 16 1/2 in. (31.5 × 42 cm)

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsCountry homes in artGarden toolsGardens in artBlack people in art

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Catalogue: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds

Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

~~Isaac Mendes Belisario was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1795 into a Sephardic Jewish family of Spanish or Portuguese origin. Expelled from Spain in 1492, the majority of Sephardim settled in Portugal and in 1497 were...

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Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.395-423

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.025

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18647&redirecttoanchor=40693

Mapping a New Kingston: Belisario’s Sketches of Character

Gillian Forrester

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

Stuart Hall has observed that the Caribbean “is a place where nobody is, in the obvious sense, ‘at home,’ where everybody is to some extent dislocated, and that sense of being ‘not at home,’ or...

Author

Gillian Forrester

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.65-85

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18628&redirecttoanchor=40693

Chapter subject tags:Art, JamaicanIllustrated books--History--19th centurySlavery--JamaicaSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryBelisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849Enslaved persons--Emancipation--West Indies, BritishMasquerades--Caribbean Area--History

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