Details
Title A Carib of Morne Ronde, St. Vincent [graphic].
Publisher London: Published by Whittaker & Co
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1833
Date December 1833
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 12 x 9 cm. (4.5 x 3.5 in)
Description Portrait image of Mary and her child, two Caribs whom Wentworth met in Morne Ronde on St. Vincent. According to Wentworth, Mary's features "were more of the African character, than of the aboriginal Indians, who were remarkable for the symmetry of their forms, and long straight glossy hair." "Her proportions, too," he wrote, "were singularly out of proportion, as if -- excepting her head and feet, she had been formed of the half limbs of a muscular giantess." (p. 337)
Is part of Wentworth, Trelawney. West India sketch book. London: Printed for Whittaker & Co., 1834.
Notes Plate in Trelawney Wentworth's West India Sketch Book (London: Printed for Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1834), vol. II, p. 336.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject Garifuna (Caribbean people) -- Saint Vincent -- Portraits.
Garifuna women -- Saint Vincent -- Portraits.
Genre Engravings -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1834 Wentw 5894.D vol 2 p 336
Accession number 5894.D