Caribbean Sugar Plantation – PAIR: Anonymous hand.
Caribbean Sugar Plantation
PAIR: Anonymous hand.
Watercolour. c.1800. Provenance: by descent to Ruth Heppel (1926-2023).
11.5x17.5 inches.
Framed: 16.5x22 inches.
£6,000
We have not been able to identify the hand that painted these watercolours. A number of views of Jamaican plantations were published by James Hakewill (1778-1843) in 1825, but this one does not appear amongst them for us to identfy the location. The works are much the same as views of Country estates that were commissioned in Britain at this date. The plantation buildings, layout and its setting within the countryside is recorded. Healthy slaves work the land and romance. Trees are heavy with bee hives. The plantation is clean and modern. A now entirely unconvincing evocation of an Idyll, one wonders how effective this impression was at the time.
This work appears in the Exhibition:
BRITISH WORKS ON PAPER 2025