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

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

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

1 print : engraving

Indigotoire

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)

Wellcome Collection 31353i

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.)