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Lot Essay
The artist, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, published An Account of the Botanic garden in the Island of St. Vincent in Glasgow in 1825, with four coloured lithographs by Watson after Guilding's drawings (Abbey, Travel, II, 691).
The second largest island in the Windward group, in the Lesser Antilles, St. Lucia lies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. French planters from St. Vincent and Grenada established sugar and cotton plantations on the island from 1763. The island was contested fiercely by the French and British through the eighteenth century before being ceded to the British by the Treaty of Paris in 1814 and becoming a British Crown Colony.
The second largest island in the Windward group, in the Lesser Antilles, St. Lucia lies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. French planters from St. Vincent and Grenada established sugar and cotton plantations on the island from 1763. The island was contested fiercely by the French and British through the eighteenth century before being ceded to the British by the Treaty of Paris in 1814 and becoming a British Crown Colony.