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Book Review
Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement. Picturing the British West Indies 1700–1840
03/2010 | 1284 | 152
Pages: 188
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Reviewer:
Brockington, Grace (Brockington, Grace)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799 / 1800-1849
places:
Jamaica
print:
British West Indies
print:
Colonialism
subjects:
Slavery / Cultural history / Patronage / Natural history / Caricatures
subjects:
British / Art / Art history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement. Picturing the British West Indies 1700–1840 | author: Kriz, Kay Dian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
48. Market day, Roseau, Dominica, by Agostino Brunias. c.1780. Canvas, 35.6 by 46.4 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven)
Book Review
Persuasion and Propaganda: Mon­uments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
11/2009 | 1280 | 151
Pages: 781-782
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Reviewer:
Trumble, Angus (Trumble, Angus)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799
places:
United States / India
places:
Jamaica
print:
Commemorative monuments
print:
Funerary art
subjects:
Funerary structures / Sculpture / Colonial / British sculpture / Commemorative monuments / Historic monuments / Sepulchral monuments / British
subjects:
Churches / Religious architecture / Religious art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Persuasion and Propaganda: Mon­uments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire | author: Coutu, Joan
Article
Elizabeth, Countess of Home, and Her House in Portman Square
08/1967 | 773 | 109
Pages: 443-451+453
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Author:
Lewis, Lesley (Lewis, Lesley)
Subjects
artists:
Cheere, John
artists:
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792
buildings:
Home House, London, Great Britain
dates:
1700-1799
patrons:
Home, Elizabeth, Countess of Home, b. ca. 1704
places:
England / Jamaica / London
sources:
Beckford, William, 1760-1844
subjects:
British sculpture / British architecture
subjects:
Patronage
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Monument to James Lawes, by John Cheere. Signed. (St Andrew's, Halfway Tree, Jamaica.)
Attributed works:
11. Duchess of Cumberland, by Thomas Gainsborough. Canvas, 236 by 142 cm. (Buckingham Palace.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. The Queen.
Attributed works:
12. Duke of Cumberland, by Thomas Gainsborough. Canvas, 236 by 142 cm. (Buckingham Palace.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H. M. The Queen.
Attributed works:
13. Drawing for Picture Frame in Ballroom at Home House, by Robert Adam. Dated May 1777. (Soane Museum.) Reproduced by Permission of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum.
Attributed works:
14. Drawing for Glass over Chimneypiece in Ballroom at Home House, by Robert Adam. (Soane Museum.) Reproduced by Permission of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum.
Attributed works:
15. Drawing for Glass between Doors to Ballroom at Home House, by Robert Adam. (Soane Museum.) Reproduced by Permission of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum.
Attributed works:
16. Ballroom at Home House. S. W. View. Reproduced by Permission of Country Life.
Attributed works:
9. Monument to Deborah Gibbons, by John Cheere. Signed. (St Peter's Church, Vere, Jamaica.)
Attributed works:
A. Suggested Reconstruction of West Wall-Elevation of the Ballroom of Home House. Drawing by Trevor K. Gould. Reproduced by Courtesy of the Director, the Courtauld Institute.
Western art unattributed:
8. View of St Peter's Church, Vere, Jamaica.
Short Notice
A Wilton Monument in Jamaica
01/1966 | 754 | 108
Pages: 20-21+23
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Author:
Lewis, Lesley (Lewis, Lesley)
Subjects
artists:
Wilton, Joseph
buildings:
Cathedral of Saint Jago de la Vega, Spanish Town, Jamaica
dates:
1750-1799
places:
England / Jamaica
places:
Spanish Town (Jamaica)
subjects:
British sculpture
subjects:
Funerary art / Sepulchral monuments
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Monument to Matthew and Lucretia Gregory, by Joseph Wilton. Signed and Dated 1783. (Cathedral Church of St Jago de la Vega, Spanish Town, Jamaica.)
Attributed works:
28. Detail from Monument Reproduced in Fig.27. [by Joseph Wilton. Signed and Dated 1783. (Cathedral Church of St Jago de la Vega, Spanish Town, Jamaica.)]
Book Review
El Gotico y el Renacimiento en las Antillas
05/1949 | 554 | 91
Pages: 148
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Reviewer:
Hildburgh, W. L. (Hildburgh, W. L.)
Subjects
places:
Cuba / Puerto Rico / Jamaica / Dominican Republic (nation)
subjects:
Architecture / Colonial / Renaissance / Gothic (Medieval)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
El Gotico y el Renacimiento en las Antillas | author: Angulo Iñiguez, Diego