Ann Sanders (later Inglett Fortescue) commissioned in 1785 a series of paintings from Francis Towne based on the latter's trip to Italy in 1780-1781, one of which, A View Near the Arco Scuro, Looking Towards the Villa Medici, Rome, is now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York after its purchase in 2010.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/395055
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
