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Antique View of Trelawney Town, Jamaica Maroons, Bryan Edwards, 1818
1818 · City Views & Plans

Antique View of Trelawney Town, Jamaica Maroons, Bryan Edwards, 1818

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Date
1818
Kind
City Views & Plans
Size
21 × 26.8 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in)
Condition
Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Good antique condition with general age-related toning, foxing and scattered spotting, particularly in the margins. Some minor edge wear and paper irregularities consistent with age and removal from the original volume. The image remains strong.
Period
The Early Republic
Places
Jamaica
Reference
BG-13306-1-13
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.
Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Trelawney Town, the principal settlement of the Jamaican Maroons, in an original engraved view lettered "Trelawney Town, the Chief Residence of the Maroons". It was published in the 1818 London edition of Bryan Edwards' History of the British West Indies.

The town is spread across a broad valley below wooded hills and distant mountains, with low, single-story houses along tracks that wind up the slope. A palm rises at the right, other palms and broad-leaved plants grow in the middle ground, and cattle or sheep graze near the houses. In the foreground at the lower left, dark figures move among the rocks and undergrowth, and another figure walks at the right. Heavy cumulus clouds build over the hills.

The Maroons were communities descended from Africans who escaped slavery and settled in Jamaica's interior. Trelawney Town was a center of the Second Maroon War of 1795 to 1796, after which many of its inhabitants were deported first to Nova Scotia and later to Sierra Leone. Edwards (1743 to 1800), a Jamaica planter and historian, wrote about the war in his history of the West Indies.

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