Print made by Joseph Constantine Stadler, active 1780–1812, Britishafter Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Title:
Rosehill
Date:
ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:
Image: 15 3/8 x 22in. (39.1 x 55.9cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Engraved inscriptions: below image at left: "I.M.W. Turner R.A. delt."; below image at right: "I.C Stadler sculpt." and below image at center: "ROSEHILL"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.13212
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2007, pp. 340-41, no. 68, N8243 S576 B37 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Like many wealthy planters, John (known as "Jack") Fuller seems never to have even visited Jamaica, entrusting the administration of his estates there to attorneys and factors. Fuller was a vociferous opponent of the abolition of the slave trade, declaring that living conditions of the enslaved in the West Indies were "equal, nay, superior to the condition of the labouring poor of this country." He was also an important patron of the landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, and commissioned several views of his British estates from the artist. Turner never articulated his views on slavery in words but his extraordinary painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying: Typhoon Coming On (exhibited 1840; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is a profound and unequivocal critique of the slave trade. Gallery label for Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)