Adolphe Duperly

Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica, and who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business.

The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Baillie Esq. Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833.
Falmouth taken from the Church Tower

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]

References and sources
References
  1. "Adolphe Duperly and Sons". RCS Photographers Index. Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  2. Staff writer (6 June 1823). "News". Le Télégraphe. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
Sources

Staff writer (6 June 1823). "News". Le Télégraphe. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2017.


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