Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION--TRINIDAD.) Group of 5 lithographs from "Sketches of West India Scenery with Illustrations of Negro Character." 5 (of 27) hand-colored lithographs, 11 x 14 3/4 inches; disbound, light mat toning, moderate foxing, one with repaired tear in margin. London, circa 1836
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These plates come from "Sketches of West India Scenery with Illustrations of Negro Character. The Process of Making Sugar, &c. Taken during a Voyage to, and Seven Years Residence in the Island of Trinidad." The artist Richard Bridgens was an English architect who moved to Trinidad in 1825 when his wife inherited a sugar plantation. These five prints depict Caribbean sugar planation slavery from life, although from the eye of a slaveholder. Included are:

8. Planting the Sugar Cane; 9. Cutting Canes; 10. Carting Canes to the Mill (showing a boiling house and sugar mill); 11. Interior of a Boiling House; and 12. Carting Sugar / Rose Hill, the Residence of Edward Jackson Esqr.

Abbey Travel 680. No examples of the complete volume have been traced at auction since 2006.