FIG 9.3 Thomas Sutherland after James Hakewill “Harbour Street,...

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TitleHarbour Street, Kingston

Creator nameSutherland, Thomas

Creator name (description)after James Hakewill

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1824–1825

Object typePrint

MaterialsAquatint with watercolor

Dimensionsimage, 5 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (14 × 21.2 cm); plate, 8 7/8 × 11 3/8 in. (22.5 × 29 cm)

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1673738

Accession numberT 683 (Fo. A)

SubjectsCities and towns in artJamaica--Social conditionsJamaica--Description and travel

StatusFrom "A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, from Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821," London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. and E. Lloyd

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5. Torrid Zones and Detoxified Landscapes: Picturing Jamaica, 1825–1840

Kay Dian Kriz

Description: Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies,...

Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840

This sharp piece of billingsgate, written by the Grub Street wit Edward Ward in 1698, jumbles images of the body and the landscape in order to imagine Jamaica...

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Kay Dian Kriz

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.157-193

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00314.6

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Chapter subject tags:Slavery--West IndiesKidd, Joseph BartholomewColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistorySlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryArt, JamaicanSugarcane industry--Caribbean Area--HistoryPrints, British--19th centuryPlantations in art--19th centuryKingston (Jamaica)Hakewill, James, 1778-1843Natural history--Caribbean Area--19th century

Customs of an Unruly Race: The Political Context of Jamaican Jewry, 1670–1831

Holly Snyder

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

Jamaica’s Jewish community, which could openly date itself back to the beginnings of English civilian settlement but likely predated the English conquest, had a peculiar relationship to the island’s evolving racial caste system. Although Jews were nominally of free European origin and therefore experienced...

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Holly Snyder

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.151-159

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.013

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Chapter subject tags:Art, JamaicanJews--Social life and customs--Caribbean AreaColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryPlantations--Caribbean AreaBelisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849Jews--Caribbean Area--HistoryJamaica--Religion--HistoryJamaica--History, MilitaryAnglo-JamaicaJamaica--Social conditionsSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryCaribbean Area--Race relationsHakewill, James, 1778-1843

Britain, Jamaica, and Empire in the Era of Emancipation

Catherine Hall

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

This essay sets the scene for Isaac Mendes Belisario’s life and work by exploring the intimate interconnections between Britain, Jamaica, and the wider British Empire in the troubled decades of the 1820s and 1830s. Its focus is on white society in Jamaica and its symbiotic relation to the “mother country.” It first tells the story of an Anglo-Jamaican family, the Barretts, and...

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Catherine Hall

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.9-24

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18625&redirecttoanchor=40743

Chapter subject tags:Jamaica--Social conditionsAbolitionists--Great BritainBelisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849Slavery--Jamaica--HistoryEnslaved persons--Emancipation--West Indies, BritishSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryJamaica--History--Slave Insurrection, 1831-32Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861Sugarcane industry--Caribbean Area--HistoryBeckford, William, 1709-1770

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