Gallery›Wellcome Collection›An overseer looks on, as others work picking plants and carrying sacks on a pole. Engraving.
An overseer looks on, as others work picking plants and carrying sacks on a pole. Engraving.
Wellcome Collection

An overseer looks on, as others work picking plants and carrying sacks on a pole. Engraving.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The Indigo Manufactory. 1 Vat. 2 Pounding tub. 3 Receiver. 4 The waterfiltrating. 5 Indigo plants. 6 Indians carrying Do. in sacks. 7 Drying cases. 8 Indians carrying Indigo to the drying cases.

🔒
Order museum-quality prints

Sign in to order prints, canvas, and more of this work. Browsing and full-resolution downloads stay free.

More from Wellcome Collection

Internal organs and arteries of the horse: five figures showing dissections of the heart, lungs, thoracic viscera, pulmonary artery and veins. Engraving by T. Cowan after B. Herring, ca. 1860.
Wellcome Collection
Internal organs and arteries of the horse: five figures showing dissections of the heart, lungs, thoracic viscera, pulmonary artery and veins. Engraving by T. Cowan after B. Herring, ca. 1860.
Benjamin Herring
Syphilis; lesions on tongue and upper lip, 1869
Wellcome Collection
Syphilis; lesions on tongue and upper lip, 1869
Christopher D'Alton
Engineering: a steam engine. Engraving c.1861.
Wellcome Collection
Engineering: a steam engine. Engraving c.1861.
Unknown artist
Edward Jenner. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1803, after J. R. Smith, 1800.
Wellcome Collection
Edward Jenner. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1803, after J. R. Smith, 1800.
John Raphael Smith