78 An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction, frontispiece, James...

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Description: An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction

TitleAn Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1838

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

LocationJohn Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSlavery--JamaicaPunishment in artPrisons in art

Statusfrontispiece, James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, London, 1838

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4. Making a Black Folk: Belisario’s Sketches of Character

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

~The previous chapter examined how printed caricatures designed to solicit satiric laughter affected the formation of a set of fragmented types used to characterize the “slavish negro” in the years prior to the abolition of the slave trade. This kind of satire...

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Kay Dian Kriz

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.117-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00314.5

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Chapter subject tags:West Indies, BritishBelisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849Caricatures and cartoons--British--19th centuryBlack people--Race identity--Caribbean AreaArt, JamaicanSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryFreed persons--Caribbean AreaAfricanization

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Relación de Michoacán: Indian illustration of Purépeche history

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 18

Creator nationality/cultureMichoacán

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1539–1541

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationReal Biblioteca de El Escorial, Madrid

Relación de Michoacán:...

Relación de Michoacán: Indian illustration of Purépeche history

Sacramentary: The stoning of St. Stephen

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator name (description)Manuscript from St Maur-des-Fossés, Paris

Creator roleIlluminator

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Accession numberLatin 12054, fol. 156v

Sacramentary: The stoning of St. Stephen

Model of a house on a platform

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date100 BC–AD 300

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions13 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 7 in. (35.2 x 28.6 x 17.8 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/120440

Accession number1991.479

Model of a house on a platform

Two plates bearing Tharp family crest

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Object typeContainer

MaterialsPorcelain (unmarked) with painted decoration

Two plates bearing Tharp family crest

Description: Quarterly inventories of slaves and stock on John Tharp’s Estates, 28 June...

Quarterly inventories of slaves and stock on John Tharp’s Estates, 28 June 1795–28 Dec. 1796

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1796

Object typeBook/Manuscript

MaterialsInk

Dimensions8 1/8 × 12 3/4 in. (20.6 × 32 cm)

LocationCambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, UK

Accession numberR55/7/123/1

Quarterly inventories of slaves and...

Quarterly inventories of slaves and stock on John Tharp’s Estates, 28 June 1795–28 Dec. 1796

Description: Diagram, or Plan of the Town, Inhabited by the Runaway and Rebellious Negroes,...

Diagram, or Plan of the Town, Inhabited by the Runaway and Rebellious Negroes, Called by Them, We No Sen’, You No Come

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1828

Object typePrint

Dimensionsimage: 5 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (14 × 10.5 cm), sheet: 7 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (19 × 10.5 cm)

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/3430259

Accession numberJamaica Cxp k825ab

Diagram, or Plan of the Town, Inhabited...

Diagram, or Plan of the Town, Inhabited by the Runaway and Rebellious Negroes, Called by Them, We No Sen’, You No Come

Model of a circular ceremonial center

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsCeramic and pigment

Dimensions13 x 18 1/2 in. (33 x 47 cm )

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/75238

Accession number1989.639

Model of a circular ceremonial center

Description: Inventory of Good Hope estate: (a) tools &c in estate offices (b) slaves (c)...

Inventory of Good Hope estate: (a) tools &c in estate offices (b) slaves (c) cattle, mules etc, 1804

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1804

Object typeBook/Manuscript

MaterialsInk

Dimensions8 1/8 × 12 5/8 in. (20.5 × 30.3 cm)

LocationCambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, UK

Accession numberR55/7/123/2

Inventory of Good Hope estate: (a) tools...

Inventory of Good Hope estate: (a) tools &c in estate offices (b) slaves (c) cattle, mules etc, 1804

An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator nameTilt, Charles

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1836

Object typePrint

MaterialsEtching and line-engraving

Dimensionsimage: 4 3/8 × 7 in. (11.1 × 17.8 cm); sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 in. (16.8 × 22.9 cm)

LocationNational Library of Jamaica, Kingston

An Interior View of a Jamaica House of...

An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction

Justinian and his retinue, including Archbishop Maximian

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 545-547AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

Justinian and his retinue, including...

Justinian and his retinue, including Archbishop Maximian

Storyteller figure

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureJalisco

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions22 x 22 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/73795

Accession number1989.83

Storyteller figure

War News from Mexico

Posted by:John Carlson

May 16

Creator nameWoodville, Richard Caton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1848

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 x 25 in. (68.6 x 63.5 cm)

LocationCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

https://crystalbridges.emuseum.com/objects/116/war-news-from-mexico

Accession number2010.74

War News from Mexico

Codex Tudela: Indian costumes

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 18

Creator nationality/cultureAztec

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1530–1554

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsLaid paper and natural pigments

LocationMuseo del América, Madrid

Codex Tudela: Indian costumes

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan worshipping Christ

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator name (description)Presumably Saint Dunstan

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation dateAD 930–970

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBodleian Library, Oxford University, United Kingdom

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/a7ebbb6f-414f-4bb9-9399-b3ed588c15af

Accession numberMs. Auct. F.4.32, fol. 1

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan...

Self-portrait (?) of St. Dunstan worshipping Christ

Advertisement of Slave Sale by Alexandre Lindo

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1786

Object typePrint

MaterialsBroadsheet, printed in black on laid paper

Dimensions9 × 7 1/4 in. (22.9 × 18.4 cm)

LocationNational Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston

Advertisement of Slave Sale by Alexandre...

Advertisement of Slave Sale by Alexandre Lindo

Description: Account of Clothing Served to Old Montpelier Estate’s Slaves/this 17th Day of...

Account of Clothing Served to Old Montpelier Estate’s Slaves/this 17th Day of May 1827

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation datec. 1824

Object typeBook/Manuscript

Dimensionspage spread: 12 1/2 × 15 1/8 in. (31.6 × 38.4 cm)

LocationNational Library of Jamaica, Kingston

Account of Clothing Served to Old...

Account of Clothing Served to Old Montpelier Estate’s Slaves/this 17th Day of May 1827

Page from the Radnor Estate Journal (recto and verso)

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1818

Object typeBook/Manuscript

MaterialsBrown ink on ruled paper torn from a bound volume

Dimensions16 1/4 × 101/2 in. (41.3 × 26.6 cm)

LocationNational Library of Jamaica, Kingston

Page from the Radnor Estate Journal...

Page from the Radnor Estate Journal (recto and verso)

Description: Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in...

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in Classe

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. AD 668–685

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring...

Constantine IV Pogonatus conferring privileges on the church of S. Apollinare in Classe

Funerary Cheek-Piercing Ritual

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date200 BC–AD 300

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

DimensionsDiameter 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/148347

Accession number1997.475

Funerary Cheek-Piercing Ritual

The Happy Free Labourers of England/The Wretched Slaves in the West Indies

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 28

Creator name (description)A. Ducôtés

Creator nationality/cultureBritish

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1833

Object typePrint

MaterialsLithograph

DimensionsImage: 150 × 233 mm

LocationFrom "McLean's Monthly Sheet of Caricatures or the Looking Glass", vol. IV, no. 43 (1 July 1883), p. 3 (detail). Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12332

Accession number18,680,808.12

The Happy Free Labourers of England/The...

The Happy Free Labourers of England/The Wretched Slaves in the West Indies

Laocoön

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 23

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date40–30 B.C.

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

DimensionsH: 95 1/4 in. (242 cm)

LocationVatican Museums, Rome

https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1059.0.0?lang=en_US

Accession numberCat. 1059

Laocoön

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten Commandments

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation date1373

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Accession numberFr. 14939, fol. 5r

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten...

Somme le Roi: Moses receives the Ten Commandments

Theodora and her retinue

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 545 AD-547AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

Theodora and her retinue

Description: Installation view of Primary Structures exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York,...

Installation view of Primary Structures exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York, showing works by Donald Judd

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 23

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1966

Object typePhotograph

Installation view of Primary Structures...

Untitled 1966 (on wall) and Untitled 1966 (on floor)

Description: Portrait of Michel-Eugène Chevreul pasted into Homer's copy of...

Portrait of Michel-Eugène Chevreul pasted into Homer's copy of "Chevreul on Colours"

Posted by:John Carlson

May 04

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Object typePrint

LocationStrong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York

Portrait of Michel-Eugène...

Portrait of Michel-Eugène Chevreul pasted into Homer's copy of "Chevreul on Colours"

Bestiary: Creation of Eve

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator nationality/cultureEnglish

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation date1201–1225

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBodleian Library, Oxford University, United Kingdom

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/547571c6-0e1e-414f-b245-f36706655540

Accession numberMs. Ashmole 1511, fol. 7

Bestiary: Creation of Eve

Roman de la Rose: Copying and illuminating the folios of a manuscript

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 10

Creator roleIlluminator

Creation datec. 1300

Object typeBook/Manuscript

LocationBibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Accession numberFr. 25526, fol. 77v

Roman de la Rose: Copying and...

Roman de la Rose: Copying and illuminating the folios of a manuscript

St. Jerome in his Study

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1500–1510

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

Dimensions11 x 8 in. (28 x 20.4 cm)

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/29742001

Accession number1845,0825.690

St. Jerome in his Study

Female figure with an apron table

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 300–700

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsEarthenware

Dimensions13 3/8 x 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (34 x 24.5 x 19.4 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/312579

Accession number1979.206.357

Female figure with an apron table

Wooden implement

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 02

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1400–1600

Object typeTool/Implement

MaterialsWood

DimensionsWidth 7 3/4 in. (19.8 cm)

LocationCleveland Museum of Art

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1950.411

Accession number1950.411

Wooden implement

Laocoön, detail of lower torso and legs

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 17

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date40–30 B.C.

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

LocationVatican Museums, Rome

https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1059.0.0?lang=en_US

Accession numberCat. 1059

Laocoön, detail of lower torso and...

Laocoön, detail of lower torso and legs

The Veroli Casket

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator nationality/cultureByzantine

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. AD 950–1000

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsIvory and bone on wood core; metal hardware

Dimensions4 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 15 7/8 in. (11.5 x 16 x 40.3 cm)

LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70463/veroli-casket-casket-unknown/

Accession number216-1865

The Veroli Casket

Description: Document relating to claim for compensation for freed slaves on abolition of...

Document relating to claim for compensation for freed slaves on abolition of slavery, 14 December 1835

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1835

Object typeBook/Manuscript

MaterialsInk

LocationCambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, UK

Accession numberR55/7/128/(l)

Document relating to claim for...

Document relating to claim for compensation for freed slaves on abolition of slavery, 14 December 1835

Description: Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows Adored by St. John the Baptist and another...

Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows Adored by St. John the Baptist and another Saint

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1470–1485

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

Dimensions9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (24.3 x 19 cm)

LocationBritish Museum, London

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/29367001

Accession number1856,0712.1029

Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows...

Trinity with Christ as the Man of Sorows Adored by St. John the Baptist and another Saint

Phytomorphic Vessel

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureColima

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation date200 BC–AD 500

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsBurnished ceramic with slip

DimensionsHeight 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)

LocationLos Angeles County Museum of Art

http://collections.lacma.org/node/182618

Accession numberAC1996.146.27

Phytomorphic Vessel

Portable Mosaic Icon with Saint John Chrysostom

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator nationality/cultureByzantine

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 1325

Object typeMosaic

MaterialsMiniature mosaic set in wax on wood panel, with gold, gilded copper (?), and multicolored stones

Dimensions7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (18 x 13 cm)

LocationDumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.

http://museum.doaks.org/Obj27115

Accession numberBZ.1954.2

Portable Mosaic Icon with Saint John...

Portable Mosaic Icon with Saint John Chrysostom

Procession of female saints

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation datec. 550 AD

Object typeMosaic

LocationS. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy

Procession of female saints

Blackamoor figures

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 01

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 1875–1900

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsPainted and gilt wood and metal

Dimensions24 x 7 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. (61 x 19.7 x 17.5 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston

https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/141477/pair-of-candlesticks-with-figures-of-blackamoors

Accession number96.1127.1

Blackamoor figures

The Virgin and Child (Theotokos Hodegetria)

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 1100–1200

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsIvory

Dimensions12 7/8 x 3 5/8 x 2 in. (32.7 x 9.2 x 5.2 cm)

LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93178/virgin-and-child-theotokos-hodegetria-statuette-unknown/

Accession number702-1884

The Virgin and Child (Theotokos...

The Virgin and Child

Christ Flanked by Disciples

Posted by:John Carlson

Apr 27

Creator nationality/cultureByzantine

Creator roleSculptor

Creation dateAD 886–912

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsIvory

Dimensions4 x 3 7/8 x 3/4 in. (10.3 x 10 x 2 cm)

LocationStaatliche Museen zu Berlin

https://id.smb.museum/object/1415193

Accession number2006

Christ Flanked by Disciples

Candleholder in the form of a Moor wearing a skirt of tobacco leaves

Posted by:John Carlson

MaterialsLimewood stained to resemble ebony

DimensionsH: 234 cm (without base)

LocationStädtisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany

Candleholder in the form of a Moor...

Candelholder in the form of a Moor wearing a skirt of tobacco leaves

Model of a Tree-Climbing Ritual

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nationality/cultureNayarit

Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist

Creation dateAD 100–800

Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object

MaterialsCeramic and pigment

DimensionsHeight 9 in. (22.8 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/120168

Accession number1990.554.2

Model of a Tree-Climbing Ritual

Carved image of a standing woman in red

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 19

Creator nationality/cultureAfro-Jamaican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 1834

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsWood (lignum vitae) and pigment

Dimensions35 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (89 × 16 × 16 cm)

LocationMuseum of History and Ethnography, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston

Carved image of a standing woman in red

Portrait of Fath Khan, son of Malik Ambar

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 14

Creator nationality/cultureIndian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1610–1620

Object typePainting

MaterialsOpaque watercolor and gold on paper

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/148777/possibly-fath-khan-son-of-malik-ambar

Accession number17.3103

Portrait of Fath Khan, son of Malik...

Portrait of Malik Ambar

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