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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) DUPERLY, CHARLES & SONS.
Group of twenty-five
sepia toned silver print photographs of scenes in Jamaica, most are on their
original paper mounts with pencil captions; Duperly’s stamps on reverse.
each
photograph approximately 6 x 9 inches (a few larger or smaller); one “Mango Tree,” has
been partially cropped, complimenting the shape of the tree; the condition of the prints
generally very good.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Jamaica, circa 1900
[1,500/2,500]
A wonderful series of photographs by one of the best-known Jamaican photographers. It includes
scenes of the African descended people of the island in their small villages as well as images of
the busy streets and market-places of Kingston. Adolphe Duperly, born in Paris in 1801,
moved to Jamaica some time in the late 1830’s. He was originally an engraver, lithographer and
printer. As early as 1833, he published an engraving of the 1831 Christmas Rebellion and in
1838 a lithograph of the celebrations in Kingston following the Emancipation in the West
Indies (1834.) He established his first photography studio and firm in Kingston, selling views
around 1840 to 1842 (according to advertisements). In the mid 1840’s he produced a series of
lithographs made from his own daguerreotypes of Jamaican scenes. After his passing in 1864,
his son Armand John Lewis (1834-1909) [possibly his grandson?] took over the business and
continued issuing suites of photographs of the Island. The firm received Honourable Mention at
the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and the Gold Medal at the Jamaican Exhibition of 1891. In
1907, a fire destroyed the original premises of the firm, but it was rebuilt in 1907 and appears
to have continued until about 1922.
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