Details
Creator Fuchs, F. lithographer.
Contributor Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.) printer.
Title View of cotton plantation and gen [sic] in West Indies in 1764 [graphic] / F. Fuchs sc.
Publisher Philadelphia: L.N. Rosenthal, Lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1854
Date [1854]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; image 13 x 17 cm. (5.25 x 6.5 in)
Description According to the title, the image is set in the West Indies in 1764. The lithograph accompanies a brief discussion of the history of cotton cultivation in the New World. The featured plantation is situated near the coast, and three ships (presumably trading vessels) are visible in the background. In the right foreground, a slave picks cotton from a plant and places it in a basket. Behind him, another slave carefully cleans the picked cotton. At the far left, a female slave operates an early cotton gin, and two men pack large sacks of finished cotton. Two full sacks of cotton occupy the left foreground; one bears the label "7 No. 120 / P.R.M."
Is part of Mississippi, State Geologist. Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. for E. Barksdale, State Printer, 1854.
Notes Plate in the Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. for E. Barksdale, State Printer, 1854), plate VIII, p. 140.
Engraving is based upon a print executed by Prevost and published in the first volume of Diderot's Encylcopedia (Paris: 1762) under the title "Oeconomie Rustique, Culture et Arsonnage du Coton."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject Cotton plantations -- West Indies (French)
Slave labor -- West Indies, French.
Cotton gins and ginning.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1854 Miss Sta 13287.O p 140
Accession number 13287.O