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Plantations

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  • A tea plantation in China: workers roll the caper tea into balls. Coloured lithograph.
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.
  • A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.
  • A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
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Catalogue

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    Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 20 October 1877 | Reference: 25225i
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    A group of men in turbans are carrying a litter, and attending to their passenger. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold.

    Gold, Charles, Captain. | Date: 27 Novr. 1804 | Reference: 37176i
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    Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.

    Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872. | Date: 1840 | Reference: 496607i
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    A tea plantation in China: workers trimming the tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.

    | Reference: 25243i
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    A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.

    | Date: [approximately 1800] | Reference: 25229i
    Part of: A tea plantation in China
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