Untitled Image (Woman Pounding Cassava)
This watercolour shows the back of a woman who is wearing sandals and pounding cassava/manioc in a wooden mortar with a pestle in a yard before a thatched-roof house. William Berryman was an English artist who lived in Jamaica for eight years between 1808 and 1816. He produced about 300 pencil drawings and watercolour of people, landscape, settlements, and flora in the island's southern parishes and the general region surrounding Kingston. Several other Berryman works are reproduced in T. Barringer, G. Forrester, B. Martinez-Ruiz, et al., 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).
Image Title
Untitled Image (Woman Pounding Cassava)
RegID
SI-OB-962
Date
1808-1815
Title
Untitled Image (Woman Pounding Cassava)
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3072.
Language
English
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Jamaica
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
11-May-16; 6-Sep-19
Identifier
Berryman128