[CADDY (LIEUT. JOHN HERBERT)

Scenery of the Windward & Leeward Islands], Ackermann & Co., 1837 (12)

Footnotes

VERY RARE COMPLETE SET OF THESE ATTRACTIVE VIEWS OF THE CARIBBEAN.

This suite was issued without text or title (the title is supplied by Abbey from the lettering on the cover of the binding on his set). All the prints in the present set all bear the 1837 imprint.

"Like George Heriot, James Pattison Cockburn, Philip John Bainbrigge, and other English military artists who painted Canadian scenes, [John] Caddy was trained at Woolwich in topographical sketching and painting. Much of his free time was spent at the home of a family friend, Colonel Richard Hamilton, at Woolwich Common. ... In 1828 he married Colonel Hamilton's daughter Georgiana, shortly before he left for duty in Tobago. He returned to England in 1831, but after two years left his family for his second West Indian posting, at St Lucia. In May 1834 he was transferred to St Vincent where he was joined later by his wife and family. Diary fragments describe the social rounds, the hunting, and the sketching which were possible with light military duties. Before he left for St Vincent Caddy had prepared for publication a series of four folios of scenes, largely of the West Indies. The pictures of the first folio were engraved in London and were published in 1837 by Ackermann; the other three folios never appeared" (Dictionary of Canadian Biography).

The views comprise:
1) Brimstone Hill / St. Kitts. [Engraved by J. Harris]
2) Fort Charlotte, St. Vincent's / from Kingston. [Engraved by N. Fielding]
3) The Old Crater of the Soufriere / St. Vincent. [Engraved by W. Westall]
4) The Pitons or Sugar-loaves / St. Lucia. [Engraved by C. Hunt]
5) Sandy Point, St. Kitts. [Engraved by C. Hunt
6) Pigeon Island, & Village of Gros Islet / St. Lucia. [Engraved by J. Harris]
7) The Town of Castries / St. Lucia. [Engraved by N. Fielding]
8) Kingstown / St. Vincent's / from Cane-Garden Point. [Engraved by J. Harris]
9) View from Morne Fortune / St. Lucia ... [Engraved by J. Harris]
10) Roseau, Dominica. [Engraved by J. Harris]
11) The Rabacca or Dry River / Soufriere Mountain in the distance / St. Vincent. [Engraved by W. Westall]
12) Basaltic Rocks / in Washilabou or Cumberland Valley, St. Vincent. [Engraved by W. Westall]