Jamaican Maroons, Antique Caribbean Engraving after Brunias, 1818

Name: Jamaican Maroons, Antique Caribbean Engraving after Brunias, 1818
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13306-1-12
Price: 255 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1818
Kind: Views & Engravings
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, scattered foxing and spotting, particularly in the margins. Minor edge wear and paper irregularities consistent with age and removal from the original volume. The image remains detailed.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Jamaica, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13306-1-12

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

The negotiated end of fighting between British officers and Jamaican Maroons, in an original engraving lettered "Pacification with the Maroon Negroes". The caption beneath records "Drawn from the life by Agostino Brunias" and "From an original painting in the possession of Sir Wm. Young Bart. F.R.S.", and the plate is signed "Scott sculp." It was published in the 1818 London edition of Bryan Edwards' History of the British West Indies.

On the left a group of Maroon men stand in a loose line facing the officers, their heads wrapped in cloths, with loincloths and pouches slung at their sides. One kneels in the foreground before a heap of laid-down muskets and swords. Under an open tent at the right, a British officer in a tricorn hat sits in a camp chair with his hand extended, beside a standing officer who holds a paper, a soldier in a tall cap, and a dog at his feet. Palms rise behind them on a wooded slope.

The Maroons were communities descended from Africans who escaped slavery and held out in Jamaica's mountainous interior. Brunias (about 1730 to 1796) was an Italian-born painter who worked in the British West Indies. Edwards (1743 to 1800) was a Jamaica planter and historian who defended the plantation system.

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