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Port of Spain
Port of Spain
Datec. 1839
MediumGraphite and watercolor on paper
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 6 7/8 × 4 5/16 in. (17.5 × 11 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.32
Not on view
DescriptionStreet scene in a small town "Church at end of street; two women talking on sidewalk in front of buildings; two people in a donkey cart driving away from viewer."
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Exhibition History 2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "The Beinecke Collection," June 21 - September 16, 2007 (no catalog);

2005
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Hamilton Collects, A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection," September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat.).
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), 337, catalogue no.P46.
Signature Unsigned
Inscribed Inscribed at lower left in pencil: Port of Spain / Trinidad; verso upper center in pencil: Port of Spain Trinidad West Indies
Untitled [Harbor of Saint George, Grenada]
Untitled [Harbor of Saint George, Grenada]
George Heriot
Date: c. 1777-81
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.9
A View in the Island of Barbuda in the West Indies
A View in the Island of Barbuda in the West Indies
N. James
Date: June 1818
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.11
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College.
Untitled [view from pond, Basseterre, Saint Kitts]
William Hay
Date: 1790s
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.12
Photograph by John Bentham.
Untitled
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1914-19
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: 1994.200
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Quan or Guan from the West Indies
John William Lewin
Date: 1770-1819
Medium: Graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.13
Photograph by John Bentham.
Blackbirds
Charles E. Burchfield
Date: March 1916
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: 2016.1.1
Photograph by John Bentham.
Green Castle Estate Antigua
Nicholas Pocock
Date: 1805
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: INV.282
Photograph by John Bentham.
Hommages à GB WL TSE EP
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1937
Medium: Watercolor on paper, mounted on cardboard
Object number: 1996.10
Untitled [Fort Charlotte from Kingston, St. Vincent]
Untitled [Fort Charlotte from Kingston, St. Vincent]
Date: c. 1835-1845
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.25
Untitled [Fort Charlotte from Kingston, St. Vincent]
Untitled [Fort Charlotte from Kingston, St. Vincent]
Date: c. 1840-1850
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.24
The Biggest Scare and Hoax Yet!--The Wild Animals Let Loose Again by the Zoomorphism Press, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Biggest Scare and Hoax Yet!--The Wild Animals Let Loose Again by the Zoomorphism Press, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.103
Capture of Basse Terre Guadaloupe, with a View of the attack made upon it by Commodor Moore & Gov Douglas
Capture of Basse Terre Guadaloupe, with a View of the attack made upon it by Commodor Moore & Gov Douglas
Nicholas Pocock
Date: 1789
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.15