Details
Title The Negroes stringing and rolling tobacco. [graphic].
Publisher [London: s.n]
Publisher ENG. London. 1737
Date [1737]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 15 x 21 cm. (5.75 x 8.25 in.)
Description Illustration of the processing of tobacco including a depiction of the tobacco plant.
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 37 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 94, book 5 and in later editions of the same work issued in 1725, 1737 and 1748.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project.
Subject Tobacco plantations.
Tobacco workers.
Tobacco.
Genre Engravings -- 1730-1740.
Book illustrations -- 1730-1740.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Il Pome 2177.Q plate 37.
Accession number 2177.Q