BELISARIO'S PEOPLE . . . all of them!

BELISARIO'S PEOPLE . . . all of them! QUEEN OF THE SET GIRLS ACTOR BOY

. . . from Jamaica of the 1830s

Isaac Mendes Belisario produced a remarkable set of prints illustrating the festive costumes of the Christmas season, as well as some less well known prints of ordinary people going about their everyday work.

BELISARIO'S book:

Title page transcribed:


SKETCHES OF CHARACTER

In Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, and Costume

OF THE

NEGRO POPULATION

IN THE

ISLAND OF JAMAICA

Drawn after Nature, and in Lithography

BY

I. M. BELISARIO

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"Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice."

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PUBLISHED BY THE ARTIST, AT HIS RESIDENCE, NO. 21, KING STREET.

KINGSTON, JAMAICA:

SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS. JAS. WALLACE & CO.

MESSRS. SMITH & CLARK; MESSRS JORDON & OSBORN; L. TREADWAY;

WM. CARVER; AND F. EGAN.

 

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1837

THE SET GIRLS

 
 
 
 
 
[text on French Set Girls]

 
 
 
 
 
[text on Red Set Girls]

Much of the text on this site is taken from Belisario's notes attached to the prints; this is indicted by quotation marks, with no citation of the source. Other quotations are identified individually.

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