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St. Anns – Historic Print

St. Anns, [between 1808 and 1816] — historic drawing
St. Anns, [between 1808 and 1816]. Historic drawing from the Flowers & Trees collection.

(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 St. Anns. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Unlike many botanical studies on this board, this watercolor is tied to a specific place: St. Ann, one of the parishes on Jamaica's north coast. Dated between 1808 and 1816, when Britain held the island as a major sugar colony, it belongs to a wave of work by artists and naturalists who recorded the island's trees and plants for patrons, scientific collectors and planters. The mix of watercolor, black ink and pencil suggests the artist sketched the outline first and then added color. Careful records like this helped Europeans learn the tropical landscape they were profiting from, and they remain useful for studying the island's vegetation at the time.

Created / published[between 1808 and 1816]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor, black ink, pencil.
GenreWatercolors 1800-1820.Drawings Color 1800-1820.
SubjectsTrees--Jamaica--1800-1820.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,141 × 1,452 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218819

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