Untitled [Harbor of Saint George, Grenada]

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Untitled [Harbor of Saint George, Grenada]
Untitled [Harbor of Saint George, Grenada]
Artist/Maker (Canadian, born Scotland, 1759 – 1839)
Datec. 1777-81
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 7 3/8 × 11 5/8 in. (18.7 × 29.5 cm) Support: 7 3/8 × 11 5/8 in. (18.7 × 29.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.9
Not on view
DescriptionGeorge Heriot sailed for the West Indies in 1777 and remained there until returning to England in 1781. From his experiences, he wrote and illustrated "A Descriptive Poem, written in the West Indies," published in London in 1781 (a copy of which is housed at Hamilton College Special Collections, PR4785.H74 D4 1781). "Hills, harbor, town, palm trees, fort, road curving toward viewer; town with church spire, troops drilling, sea, peninsula, harbor, town, two mounted officers, five black women, two people in horsecart."

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Selections from the Permanent Collection: 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), 333, catalogue no.P22a.
Signature Unsigned
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at center: 940 [underlined]; in pencil on verso at lower right: West Indies.
Negroe Dance, West Indies
George Heriot
Date: c. 1777-81
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.10
Photograph by John Bentham.
Lt. John Herbert Caddy
Date: 1845
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.3
without frame. Photograph by John Bentham.
William Smyth
Date: 1849
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1971.19
Photograph by John Bentham.
John William Lewin
Date: 1770-1819
Medium: Graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.13
A View in the Island of Barbuda in the West Indies
N. James
Date: June 1818
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.11
Photograph by John Bentham.
Christoph Jamnitzer
Date: published 1610 (possibly printed later)
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1928.11
N.E. view of Fort Louis in the Island of Martinique
Cooper Willyams
Date: published August 1, 1796
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Object number: 1981.1.3
H. M. S. Pallas. saluting the Governor. at Grenada
W. Mainwaring
Date: 1820
Medium: Pencil and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.29
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
Untitled [St. Martin, W.I.]
Date: 1850?
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1973.3
Island of Grenada. W. Indies
Date: August 26, 1843
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.27