This image shows carters driving team of oxen pulling wagon loaded with hogsheads, while woman walking with small children by the river Rio Cobre. James Hakewill (1778–1843) was an English architect known for illustrated publications. Several of his works relating to Jamaica can be found in T. Barringer, G. Forrester, and B. Martinez-Ruiz, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007), passim.

James Hakewill, A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, from Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821 (London, 1825; reprinted, Kingston, Jamaica and San Francisco, 1990), plate 15. Copy in Archives and Special Collections, University of Miami Library.

Hakewill, James

English

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Caribbean--Jamaica

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