Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: To Major Hare of the 12th Light Dragoons, This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre, is inscribed by his sincere & obliged Friend, Cooper Willyams.
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Accession number:
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07265
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Record number:
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07265-5
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JCB call number:
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D796 W742a / 1-SIZE (copy 2)
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Image title:
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To Major Hare of the 12th Light Dragoons, This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre, is inscribed by his sincere & obliged Friend, Cooper Willyams.
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Creator 1:
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Cooper Willyams
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Creator 1 dates:
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1762-1816
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Creator 1 role:
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Drawn by
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Creator 2:
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S. Alken
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Creator 2 role:
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Fecit
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Place image published:
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London
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Image publisher:
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[T. Bensley]
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Image date:
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1796
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Image function:
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fold-out plate; following p. 45
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Technique:
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etching, aquatint
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Image dimension height:
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25.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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42.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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29 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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45.7 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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View of a town on a bay. Includes mountain, opera house, Ursuline convent, flag, redoubt or fort, parade, guard house, former Jesuit college, dwellings, boats, ship, and Black people on the shoreline and rowing boats.
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Source creator:
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Willyams, Cooper, 1762-1816
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Source Title:
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An account of the campaign in the West Indies, in the year 1794, under the command of their excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K. B. ...
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed by T. Bensley; for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall; B. and J. White, Fleet-Street; and J. Robson, New Bond-Street.
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Source date:
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1796
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notes:
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Identification of buildings is taken from the explanation of plates. The mountain is Mount Pelée, an active volcano whose eruption destroyed the city in 1902. Although Fort-de-France became the capital of Martinique, St. Pierre was its commercial center. A noted topographer and artist, the Reverend Cooper was the son of a British naval commander. After attending Cambridge, he was ordained and contributed to "Topographical Miscellanies" before first going to sea as chaplain on the Boyne in 1793. The Boyne participated in the West Indies' action related to the war between England and France. In 1796, Willyams returned to London and published this account of that campaign. In 1802 he again set sail with Nelson's fleet. The monarchists on Martinique had invited British occupation in 1794, and the island remained under British control until 1802. The engraver is probably Samuel Alken, Senior, 1756-1815. This is the large paper edition.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
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Gift of the author to Richard Croft Esqr. MD. Acquired before 1870.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Geography, maps, city views and plans
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Subject headings:
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Martinique
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Subject headings:
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France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
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