Antilles islands: plants, trees, animals, agriculture, and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.

  • Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.
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1732
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563069i
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Antilles islands: plants, trees, animals, agriculture, and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced April 2023 : Antilles: plants, trees, animals and customs of the people. Engraving, 1732.

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Top row: growing and processing of indigo; a man, a woman and a papaya tree; plants and animals. Middle: fruits and vegetables. Bottom row: processing and cooking of foodstuffs; sea-creatures; processing of sugar

Publication/Creation

1732

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image and text 37 x 47.7 cm

Lettering

Description des plantes, arbres, animaux et poissons des iles Antilles avec les moeurs des sauvages qui s'y trouvent, et la manière dont on fait le sucre Lettering: tom.: VI; no. 37, page 158 Extensive engraved lettering, including "C'est avec bien peu de raison, dit l'auteur dont j'emprunte ces remarques, que l'on appelle sauvages les habitans de ces isles, qui sont selon lui les plus heureux, les moins vicieux, les plus sociables, les moins contrefaits, et les moins sujets aux maladies de toutes las nations de la terre."

References note

Maxime Préaud, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tom. 9, Paris 1980, pp. 53-57, nos. 1519-1538

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Wellcome Collection 563069i

Reproduction note

After engravings by Sébastien Leclerc the elder published in Jean Baptiste Du Tertre, Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les Français, Paris 1667-1671 (Préaud, loc. cit.)

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