Sugar Cane Harvest, Antigua, West Indies, 1823
Caption: Cutting the Sugar Cane, on Delap's Estate, men and women in first gang, black driver supervising; white manager/overseer on horseback. Little is known of William Clark although he was probably a manager or overseer of plantations in Antigua. The ten prints in the collection (only 9 of which are shown on this website) are based on his drawings, converted into prints by professional printmakers. All of the prints are shown and extensively described in T. Barringer, G. Forrester, and B. Martinez-Ruiz, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (New Haven : Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 318-321; the descriptions in the Yale publication are based on Clark's unpaginated text and quotations from that text.
Image Title
Sugar Cane Harvest, Antigua, West Indies, 1823
RegID
SI-OB-347
Date
1826
Title
Sugar Cane Harvest, Antigua, West Indies, 1823
Source
William Clark, Ten Views In the Island of Antigua, in Which are Represented the Process of Sugar Making.... From Drawings Made by William Clark, During a Residence of Three Years in the West Indies (London,1823). Image shown here is from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Also published in Ladies' Society for Promoting the Early Education of Negro Children (London, ca. 1833).
Language
English
Item sets
New World Agriculture & Plantation Labor
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Antigua
Reproduced In
William Clark, Ten Views In the Island of Antigua, in Which are Represented the Process of Sugar Making.... From Drawings Made by William Clark, During a Residence of Three Years in the West Indies (London,1823)
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
1-Jun-16
Identifier
NW0054