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December 15, 2009
Kay Dian Kriz Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840 New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008. 288 pp.; 40 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300140620)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.129

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A statue of Sir Hans Sloane stands at the center of London’s Chelsea Physic Garden where all variety of plants vie for attention. Sloane demonstrated his talent for gathering specimens (like those over which his statue presides) in his resplendently detailed title, Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers, and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles Etc. of the Last of those Islands...