View of Saint John’s Harbour, Antigua

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Little is known of John Johnson. He was in Antigua in 1824, working as an attorney, surveying the estates formerly owned by James Brebner-Gordon (died 1807), who had served as a councillor in Antigua and was the Chief Justice of the Ceded Islands in 1761. It is not clear whether Johnson is the same person as ‘Lt. Col. J. Johnson’, who published ‘A Journey from India to England, through Persia, Georgeia, Russia, Poland, and Prussia, in the year 1817’ (1818).

Places

Caribbean Islands (West Indies), Antigua, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic

Subjects

cart, topography, genre, tree, palm, horse, hill, man, woman, road, harbour, house, windmill, ship

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

John Johnson (c.1769 - c.1846)

Title

View of Saint John’s Harbour, Antigua

Date

published 1 February 1827

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, November 1955

GAC number

3393