Untitled [view from pond, Basseterre, Saint Kitts]

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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
Untitled [view from pond, Basseterre, Saint Kitts]
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
Artist/Maker (British, active 1776 – 1797)
Date1790s
MediumGraphite and watercolor on paper
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 8 3/16 × 11 9/16 in. (20.8 × 29.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.12
Not on view
DescriptionLandscape with figures fishing in the foreground "Hill with fort, town; harbor extending beyond hill; two women on road."
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Exhibition History 1984
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Gallery III, Hamilton College). "Beinecke Collection," July 10 - September 5, 1984;

1983
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Selection from the Hamilton College Collection," June 18 - August 14, 1983, extended to Sept. 15, 1983.
Provenance ?: Thomas Bickham Crosse, by William Hay.
Markings Former frame backing (adhesive gold label): "223 EAST 80th STREET / NEW YORK 21, N. Y. / UN 1-8585 / HAND CARVED PICTURE FRAMES / PAINTINGS RESTORED"

Former frame backing (adhesive label with pencil): "WI 342" / "9-1-61 mott[?]"

Former frame backing (adhesive label with typed black ink): "WI 342"; "9-1-61 mott[?]"; "By William Kay, probably the "W. P. Kay who did m[cutt off] / most of the illustrations for Sketches in New Bruns / wick, London, 1836." [this information is incorrect based on recent research (AMcL 6/6/2025)]
Published References Hough, Samuel J. and Penelope R.O. Hough, THE BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION AT HAMILTON COLLEGE: A CATOLOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS (Trustees of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1994), 334, catalogue no.P29.
Signature Unsigned
Inscribed Former frame backings (brown ink): "A view from the pond Basseterre St. Kitts with Nevis / Mountain in the distance. / presented to T. B. Crosse Esqr. by his friend Wm Hay" [label not in object file]

Former frame backings (brown ink): "A view from ye Pond Basseterre / St. Kitts with Nevis mountian / at a distance."
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
A View of St. Kitts Mountain taken from near the Old Fort called Londonderry
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Date: 1790s
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.8
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Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.24
Untitled [Harbor of Saint George, Grenada]
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George Heriot
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Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.9
Professional image by David Revette
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Medium: Watercolor and gum arabic on paper
Object number: 1971.22
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Samuel Fahlberg
Date: [c. 1830]
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1977.1
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Samuel Fahlberg
Date: c. 1830
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1977.2
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N. James
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Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.11
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Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.15
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Thomas Shotter Boys
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Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.2
Photograph by John Bentham.
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John William Lewin
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Medium: Graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.13
Untitled [town, harbor and fort of Saint George, Grenada]
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Medium: Watercolor on wove paper
Object number: 1973.4
H. M. S. Pallas. saluting the Governor. at Grenada
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W. Mainwaring
Date: 1820
Medium: Pencil and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.29