COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05777
Record number:
05777-2
JCB call number:
D803 D145 vol. 2
Image title:
A Spanish Chasseur of the Island of Cuba
Creator 1:
Joseph Smith
Creator 1 role:
del et sculp.
Creator 2:
E. Smith
Creator 2 role:
landscape by
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
Published for Longman & Rees
Image date:
1803
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
16.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
10.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
A man with two muzzled dogs and a sword passes in front of an encampment.
Source creator:
Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824
Source Title:
The history of the Maroons
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed by A Strahan, Printers-Street, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row
Source date:
1802
notes:
Cuban handlers (chasseurs) and their bloodhounds were hired by the British to capture Maroons in Jamaica. Now considered an indigenous people, the original Maroons were mostly freed or runaway slaves freed when the Spanish left Jamaica upon the arrival of the British in 1655.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1966.
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 headings:
Maroons--Jamaica
A Spanish Chasseur of the Island of Cuba
