[View of river with bridge] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[View of river with bridge], [between 1808 and 1816] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/51/510de62f66f9-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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of [View of river with bridge]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[View of river with bridge]
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A river winds past a bridge, with mountains rising behind it, in this watercolor of Jamaica, a British colony in the Caribbean in the early 1800s. The artist combined pencil, brown ink and watercolor, a layered method typical of drawings made to record a place and then finished in color. Views like this gave viewers in Britain and elsewhere a glimpse of the island's landscape, at a time when its economy depended heavily on plantation agriculture and enslaved labor. Note how the bridge and hills anchor the composition.
| Created / published | [between 1808 and 1816] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil, watercolor, brown ink. |
| Genre | Watercolors 1800-1820.Landscape drawings Color 1800-1820. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from finding aid. |
| Subjects | Rivers--Jamaica--1800-1820. Bridges--Jamaica--1800-1820. Mountains--Jamaica--1800-1820. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,423 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218825 |
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