Trinity Estate
This image depicts a gang of field slaves carrying agricultural tools walking along a road. There are also various plantation buildings, including the manor house, sugar works and windmill. 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.
Image Title
Trinity Estate
RegID
SI-OB-474
Date
1820-1821
Title
Trinity Estate
Source
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 12. Copy in Archives and Special Collections, Univerrsity of Miami Library.
Language
English
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Jamaica
Reproduced In
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 12.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
10-Aug-11
Identifier
HAKE2