Adolphe Duperly
Illustration — The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833. • Illustration — Falmouth taken from the Church Tower Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica, and who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business. He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s.
Also recorded as Adolphe Armand Désiré Duperly
Adolphe Duperly
Adolphe Duperly · from Daguerian excursions in Jamaica, being a collection of views of the most striking scenery, public buildings and other interesting objects, taken on the spot with the Daguerreotype, published by · Public domain
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Illustration — The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833. • Illustration — Falmouth taken from the Church Tower Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica, and who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business. He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s.
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During the 1840s he published a collection of daguerreotypes of Jamaica. He established Adolphe Duperly and Sons, which became the most successful photography business in Jamaica. The company was continued after his death by his son, Armond, and grandson Théophile. The companies original premises was destroyed by fire in 1907. From 1909 their studio was 85 King Street, Kingston.
Duperly moved to Haiti in 1823 and became one of the teachers of the Lycée National of Haiti (Lycée Toussaint Louverture in Haiti).
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Adolphe Duperly is recorded with the occupation lithographer. Recorded as photographer and lithographer.
Photograph of Falmouth Jamaica taken from the Church Rower in the 1840s
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Picture of the burning of Roehampton Estate during the Baptist War
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Adolphe Duperly was born in 1801.
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Adolphe Duperly died on 4 February 1864.
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- 1.Article fr La famille du peintre jamaïquain Adolphe Duperly auteur1=Marie-Antoinette Ménier auteur2=Pierre Bardin auteur3= Bernadette Rossignol auteur4= Philippe Rossignol Généalogie et histoire de la Caraïbe 0997-3923 47 mars 1993 743 lire en https://www.ghcaraibe.org/bul/ghc047/p0743.html .
- 2.Chapitre de titre Lecomte, Pierre titre Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart vol. 22, p. 527 auteur Hans Vollmer (dir.) Leipzig E. A. Seemann 1928 .
- 3.Article fr Divers avis. Éducation publique Le Télégraphe (Port-au-Prince) 8 juin 1823 4 lire en https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5805807/f4.item.r=Caminero.zoom# .
- 4.Article en Elizabeth A. Bohls Adolphe Duperly's rebellion prints and the historical moment of emancipation Atlantic Studies 19 1 2022 107-127 .
- 5.Art and Emancipation in Jamaica : Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds. Yale University Press. 2007. 9780300116618.
- 6.Article en Hidden Textures of Race and Historical Memory: The Rediscovery of Photographs Relating to Jamaica's Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 Mimi Sheller The Princeton University Library Chronicle 72 2 hiver 2011 533-567 lire en https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.72.2.0533 accès libre .
- 7.Frank Cundall. Bibliographia jamaicensis. A list of Jamaica books and pamphlets, magazine articles, newspapers, and maps, most of which are in the library of the Institute of Jamaica. Institute of Jamaica. 1902.
- 8.24 Views After the Earliest Known Photographs of Jamaica. Duperly, Adolphe. www.foldvaribooks.com.
- 9.Adolphe Duperly and Sons (fl. 1840-1920) (photographers). Bibliothèque de l'université de Cambridge.
- 10.La familia Duperly: su legado e historia habitan en EAFIT. www.eafit.edu.co.
- 11.Retina Caribe : Duperly. Fondo Editorial Universidad EAFIT. 2013. 9789587201918.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Duperly. An exhibition of works by Adolphe Duperly, his sons and grandsons mounted in commemoration of the bicentenary of his birth. National gallery of Jamaica. 2001.
- John Hannavy (dir.). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. 2008.
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