COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
10731
Record number:
10731-4
JCB call number:
D801 E26h
Image title:
Pacification with the Maroon Negroes.
Creator 1:
Agostino Brunias
Creator 1 dates:
1730-1796
Creator 1 role:
Drawn from the life by
Creator 2:
Scott
Creator 2 role:
sculpt:
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
I. Stockdale, Piccadilly
Image date:
1801
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 528
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
20.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
23.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
28.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Black Carib rulers or chiefs stand before British soldiers. A seated man extends his arm toward them while another reads from a document. Another soldier stands nearby with a map. Also includes guns or muskets, tent, dog, bandoliers, and knives
Source creator:
Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800
Source Title:
The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... Vol. I
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
Source date:
1801
notes:
Thought to represent the climax of the First Carib War, when a treaty was made in 1773 between the British and the black Carib chiefs in St. Vincent. The treaty demanded that the Caribs lay down their arms. A British soldier at the far right holds a map of St. Vincent with the boundaries of the Caribs and the English plantations on it. The man seated with his arm outstretched may be Sir William Young, an appointee in the British West Indies. One of the Carib chiefs may be Chatoyer. This image has also been used to illustrate scenes of maroon confrontation in Jamaica and Dominica. Because it was printed at the time of the Haitian revolution, it also became a symbol of British order and control in comparison with the disastrous French rule in the Caribbean. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
Honychurch, L. "Chatoyer's Artist: Agostino Brunias and the Depiction of St Vincent," http://www.uwichill… (Apr. 2004)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870?
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Cariban Indians
Subject headings:
Saint Vincent--History--Carib War, 1795-1796
Subject headings:
Black Carib Indians
Subject headings:
Indians of the West Indies--Wars
Pacification with the Maroon Negroes.
