Negro Man Carrying Plantains On Pole
by William Berryman
Title
Negro Man Carrying Plantains On Pole
Artist
William Berryman
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Reproduction
Description
Title: [Negro man carrying plantains on pole]
Creator(s): Berryman, William, artist
Date Created/Published: [between 1808 and 1815]
Medium: 1 drawing : grey ink and watercolor ; 14.5 x 7.6 cm. (sheet)
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William Berryman was an English artist who was active in Jamaica during the period 1808-1816. He produced over three hundred pencil sketches and watercolours of the Jamaican landscape and the daily lives of the island's people. His work demonstrates particular interest in the lives of the island's majority inhabitants: people of African and mixed descent. He planned a project of making an engraving series based upon his Jamaican artwork, but died before he could undertake it.
Berryman's unpublished work was neglected until it was recently rediscovered in an album. The United States Library of Congress acquired the collection. His work was exhibited at the Yale University Center for British Art at New Haven, Connecticut, United States and at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol, England, in 2007 and 2008
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