Forrest, Archibald Stevenson

Diving boys, street vendors and the soldiers of the West Indian Regiment bring the Caribbean to life in these book illustrat...

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Diving boys, street vendors and the soldiers of the West Indian Regiment bring the Caribbean to life in these book illustrations by Archibald Stevenson Forrest, printed between 1905 and 1908. In Jamaica he painted Kingston, Constant Spring, Dry Harbour, Mandeville and St Ann's Bay, and his travels also took in Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Trinidad. Harbour lightermen and workers going to market share the pages with steamers, timber loading and coconut palms along the shore. In Argentina he recorded bullock teams hauling timber in the Chaco and boating on the Tigre near Buenos Aires.

Diving boys, street vendors and the soldiers of the West Indian Regiment bring the Caribbean to life in these book illustrations by Archibald Stevenson Forrest, printed between 1905 and 1908. In Jamaica he painted Kingston, Constant Spring, Dry Harbour, Mandeville and St Ann's Bay, and his travels also took in Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Trinidad. Harbour lightermen and workers going to market share the pages with steamers, timber loading and coconut palms along the shore. In Argentina he recorded bullock teams hauling timber in the Chaco and boating on the Tigre near Buenos Aires.

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