ID 433000
Lot 14 | Isaac Mendes Belisario (1795-1849)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Sketches of Character, In Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, and Costume of the Negro Population in the Island of Jamaica
eleven handcoloured lithographs from the set of twelve, printed by A. Duperly and published Kingston, Jamaica, 1837-1838
(Abbey, Travel, 2, 685)
143/4 x 10in. (37.5 x 25.4cm.) and similar
The plates (without letterpress) comprise: 'Queen of "Maam" of the Set-Girls'; 'Red Set-Girls, and Jack-in-the Green'; 'Jaw-Bone, or House John-Canoe'; 'Band of the Jaw-Bone John-Canoe'; 'Koo, Koo, Or Actor-Boy'; 'Koo, Koo, Or Actor-Boy'; 'French Set-Girls'; 'Lovey'; 'Water-Jar Sellers'; 'Milkwoman'; and 'Chimneysweeper'.
The first with printed inscription 'drawn after naturure' corrected in manuscript with the printed 'ure' crossed out and manuscript 'e' added above.
eleven (11)
| Applied technique: | Lithography |
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| Genre: | Figurative art |
| Place of origin: | Jamaica |
| Auction house category: | Plates |
| Applied technique: | Lithography |
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| Genre: | Figurative art |
| Place of origin: | Jamaica |
| Auction house category: | Plates |
| Address of auction |
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