View looking towards Old Harbor(?), Jamaica – Antique Print
![View looking towards Old Harbor(?), Jamaica, [between 1808 and 1816] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1a/1aeea11623c6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures View looking towards Old Harbor(?), Jamaica in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View looking towards Old Harbor(?), Jamaica
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The record describes this watercolor as a view looking toward Old Harbour, though the place name carries a question mark, so the identification is tentative. It is dated between 1808 and 1816, when Jamaica was a British colony whose economy depended on sugar and other plantation crops shipped out through its harbors. Those ports were busy with merchant vessels carrying goods to Britain and North America, and the wartime conditions of the Napoleonic era and the War of 1812 made such trade both profitable and risky. The artist is not named in the record, so the drawing is best read as a document of a working waterfront and the commerce that sustained it.
| Created / published | [between 1808 and 1816] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors 1800-1820.Drawings Color 1800-1820. |
| Subjects | Harbors--Jamaica--1800-1820. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,437 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218822 |
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