Lot Essay
The Cascade Estate was one of three large sugar estates in the Diego Martín Valley all owned by the Scottish planter John Lamont. The scenery in the present watercolour otherwise compares closely with Cazabon's 'Bull-cart on the Maraccas River' (G. MacLean, Cazabon, An Illustrated Biography of Trinidad's Nineteenth Century Painter Michel Jean Cazabon, Port of Spain, 1986, p. 72, fig. 27), and the distinctive bamboo arches so typical of the local scenery recur frequently in his views in Trinidad (for example G. MacLean, op. cit., pp. 40, 1 (Maraval Dike), 72, 16 (Bamboos in the Macqueripe Valley) and fig. 26 (Bamboo Arches, St. Ann's)