Mill Yard, Holland Estate, St. Thomas in the East

James Hakewill, 1778–1843, British, Mill Yard, Holland Estate, St. Thomas in the East, between 1820 and 1821

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Creator:: James Hakewill, 1778–1843
Title:: Mill Yard, Holland Estate, St. Thomas in the East
Part Of:: Collective Title: Views of the Watson Taylor Estates in Jamaica
Date:: between 1820 and 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 5/8 inches (31.1 × 42.2 cm), Binding: 21 3/4 inches (55.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Lettered below image in grahpite: "MILL YARD HOLLAND ESTATE ST.THOMAS IN THE EAST | THE PROPERTY OF G.W.TAYLOR ESQR. M.P"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1977.14.1963
Classification:: Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: architectural subject | buildings | cattle | estate | genre subject | hay | horses (animals) | houses | workers | yard
Associated Places:: Jamaica | North and Central America
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The draftsman James Hakewill visited Jamaica in 1820-21, making sketches of many of the picturesque features of the island and its most significant plantations. These watercolors belong to a set of six depicting the properties of the wealthy proprietor George Watson Taylor, who lived in London. They provide visual accounts of the cultivation and processing of sugar. Llanrumny Estate gives a clear picture of a working gang of enslaved laborers at crop time-about thirty-four figures, under the keen eye of a mounted, white overseer amid a field of sugarcane in the foreground. In Mill Yard, Holland Estate, the cane, freshly brought from the field by oxcarts, is being unbound before it is hastily fed into the mill.

Gallery label for Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Timothy J. Barringer, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2007, pp. 322-23, no. 43, N8243 S576 B37 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Claudia Hucke, Picturing the postcolonial nation, ( inter ) nationalism in the art of Jamaica, 1962-1975 , Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston. Jamaica, 2013, p. 4-5, pl 8, N6609 H83 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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