Views in the Island of Barbados, West Indies, On Stone, from Drawings taken in the early part of the Year 1835 by Lieut. J.M. Carter.

£12,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Rare and desirable: there are few works of such importance and accomplishment to have escaped notice by not just the major bibliographers in the field such as Abbey, but institutional holdings, too . This is one such group. Born in Madras, John Money Carter (1812-1888) was Captain of the 1st Royals during the period when he executed these views. He was promoted to Lieutenant and later served as Adjutant in Barbados from 1846-1866. He was also posted to Gibraltar and lived in Brentford at the time of his death. These stunning views of Barbados were executed during the apprenticeship years immediately following the passing of the 1833 Emancipation Act. They depict many of the landmarks of Barbados, reflecting much of Barbadian society. The lithographs are by the renowned London firm of Day Haghe and also bear the name of R. Jennings Co., a London print publisher active in the 1830s. They are as follows: 1. Lithographic title page “Views in the Island of Barbados, West Indies.” This includes a view of Chapel School on the Society’s Estate. 2. “Monument, near the Military Hospital, Barbados, erected to the Memory of Fourteen Soldiers of the 36th Regt. who were killed by the destruction of the Barracks Hospital, during the awful visitation of the Hurricane, 11th Augt. 1831.” The view of the Monument near the Military Hospital is a neat snapshot of mid-nineteenth-century Barbados. It features a Black woman supporting a large basket and wooden tray on her head; several other people

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