Spring Garden Estate, St. Georges
This image shows a seaside sugar plantation, factory and slave houses. There are also a group of field slaves apparently returning from work and a white supervisor on horseback. 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
Spring Garden Estate, St. Georges
RegID
SI-OB-475
Date
1820-1821
Title
Spring Garden Estate, St. Georges
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 8. Copy in Archives and Special Collections, University 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 8.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
10-Aug-11
Identifier
HAKE3