An indigo plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.

  • Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.
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[1683]
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31353i
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An indigo plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced April 2023 : Two men are talking as others pick plants and stir the contents of large tanks. Engraving.

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[Paris] : [Chez Denys Thierry], [1683]

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1 print : engraving

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Maxime Préaud, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tom. 9, Paris 1980, pp. 54-55, no. 1526.8 (engraving by Leclerc)

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Wellcome Collection 31353i

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Composition adapted from an engraving 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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