Adolphe Duperly
Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business.
Duperly was born in Paris, but was in Jamaica in the 1830s and produced a lithograph of the 1831 Baptist War and the emancipation celebrations in Kingston in 1838. He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s. During the 1840s he published a collection of daguerreotypes of Jamaica.[1]
Duperly and Haiti
Duperly moved to Haiti in 1823 and became one of the teachers of the Lycée National of Haiti (Lycée Toussaint Louverture in Haiti). [2]
Gallery
_Destruction_of_the_Roehampton_Estate_January_1832.png)
Destruction of the Roehampton Estate January 1832_Falmouth_taken_from_the_Church_Tower.png)
Falmouth, Jamaica in the 1840s
References
Staff writer (6 June 1823). "News". Le Télégraphe. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ↑ "Adolphe Duperly and Sons". RCS Photographers Index. Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
- ↑ Staff writer (6 June 1823). "News". Le Télégraphe. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2017.