The illustrations in Philip Henry Gosse’s travelogue A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica, published in 1851, refuse both the picturesque modes and the natural history conventions of the period. This article explores both of these surprising formal qualities in depth by comparing these illustrations to those from Gosse’s other books and to other contemporaneous representations. One explanation for these formal choices is Gosse’s unique collaboration with a Jamaican scientist and informant of mixed race, Richard Hill. Through a close reading of Gosse’s illustrations and a comparison of the texts written by Gosse and by Hill, this article proposes a methodology for exploring how diverse individuals negotiated their places within the global natural history networks of the nineteenth century.

1851年出版的菲利普·亨利·高斯（Philip Henry Gosse）的游记《牙买加的自然主义者的旅居》中的插图既拒绝了该时期风景如画的模式，也拒绝了该时期的自然历史惯例。本文通过将这些插图与高斯其他著作中的插图以及其他同时代的插图进行比较，深入探讨了这两种令人惊讶的形式品质。对于这些正式选择的一种解释是，高斯与牙买加科学家兼混合种族线人理查德·希尔（Richard Hill）进行了独特的合作。通过仔细阅读戈斯的插图并比较戈斯和希尔撰写的文本，本文提出了一种方法，用于探索不同的个人如何在19世纪的全球自然历史网络中谈判自己的位置。