BELISARIO'S PEOPLE
in Jamaica, back in the 1830s . . .
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Isaac Mendes Belisario produced a remarkable set of prints illustrating the festive costumes of the Christmas season, as well as some less well known prints of ordinary people going about their everyday work.
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Title page transcribed:
SKETCHES OF CHARACTER
In Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, and Costume
OF THE
NEGRO POPULATION
IN THE
ISLAND OF JAMAICA
Drawn after Nature, and in Lithography
BY
I. M. BELISARIO
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"Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice."
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PUBLISHED BY THE ARTIST, AT HIS RESIDENCE, NO. 21, KING STREET.
KINGSTON, JAMAICA:
SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS. JAS. WALLACE & CO.
MESSRS. SMITH & CLARK; MESSRS JORDON & OSBORN; L. TREADWAY;
WM. CARVER; AND F. EGAN.
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1837
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