John Raphael Smith after George Morland, The Slave Trade, 1791, mezzotint printed in color, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

NEW HAVEN, CT.- Organized to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds will be the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the visual culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica will chronicle the iconography of sugar, slavery, and the topography of Jamaica from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation in the 1840s, with a particular focus on the turbulent years preceding and immediately following emancipation in 1838. Gathered together for the first time will be paintings, drawings, and prints depicting life on the Jamaican sugar plantation and images used by the anti-slavery campaign. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20799