St. Lucia

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St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Datec. 1830
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsComposition: 6 1/8 × 9 7/8 in. (15.6 × 25.1 cm) Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 3/4 in. (25.7 × 34.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.37
Not on view
DescriptionLandscape with village or plantation. Two mountains in background. Stream emerges in center, straight down to stone bridge at bottom. Five stone structures and towered church on left; slave village with farm plots on right. Prospect from hill with tree to right which fills the right border.

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "The Beinecke Collection," June 21 - September 16, 2007 (no catalog).
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), 335, catalogue no.P31.
Inscribed Inscribed at lower right in pencil: WI 987 / Mott / 1965?; verso lower center: (A1); verso in pencil: St. Lucia [ms.]
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Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Medium: Oil on canvas
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