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Sloane
employed a variety of local artists in Jamaica to make sketches of the
plants and animals he collected. In the hot, humid conditions, collections
would quickly lose colour and rot, and so art was an essential means of
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Back in London,
Sloane employed other artists and engravers to produce his two-volume publication
on his Jamaican adventure. The book reveals the breadth of his interests.
Its coverage ranges from accounts of farming cochineal insects for their
prized red dye to descriptions of his failure to bring live animals to
England: an iguana jumped off the ship and drowned, and his snake was shot
after it escaped from its jar. |
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