Untitled Image (Portraits of Two Women, One Black and One Light-Skinned)

This sketch, partially in watercolour, shows the heads of two unidentified women who are wearing head-ties. 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 (Portraits of Two Women, One Black and One Light-Skinned)

RegID

SI-OB-964

Date

1808-1815

Title

Untitled Image (Portraits of Two Women, One Black and One Light-Skinned)

Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3075.

Language

English

Item sets

Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals

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

Berryman290