Details
Title [Workers processing indigo] [graphic].
Publisher [London: s.n]
Date [1737]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 15 x 21 cm (5.75 x 8.25)
Description Illustration of the processing of indigo with captions describing the work. Captions read: The Negroes cutting ye indigo; the Negroes throwing ye indigo into ye water; a Negro stirring ye indigo in water; Negroes carrying indigo into chests or cafes to dry it; Overseer of ye Negroes; and Anil or indigo.
Is part of Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699. Compleat history of druggs, written in French by Monsieur Pomet... illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts... London: printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, R. Wilkin, S. Birt, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed, 1737.
Notes Plate 35 in Pierre Pomet's A compleat history of druggs, written in French by Monsieur Pomet... illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts (London: printed for R. Bonwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe, Matthew Wotton [and 5 others in London], 1712), page 90, book 5 and in later editions of the same work issued in 1725, 1737 and 1748.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project.
Subject Indigo industry.
Slave labor.
Genre Engravings -- 1730-1740.
Book illustrations -- 1730-1740.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Il Pome 2177.Q plate 35.
Accession number 2177.Q