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L’Etat des negres relativement a la prosperity des colonies fran$aises et de leur metropole; Discours representans de la nation
Paris, 1789 2015.0120.4
Plan de la plaine du Cap Francois en I’lsle St. Domingue
1786; engraving with watercolor on paper by Rene Phelipeau, cartographer 2007.0247
Le pilote de I’isie de Saint-Domingue et des debouquemens de cette isle....
by Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne de Chastenet, comte de Puysegur, cartographer
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1787 acquisition made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Crima Fund, 2004.0233.1
(right) Caye Saint Louis, Saint Domingue
between 1729 and 1758; pen, ink, and watercolor
by Marc-Antoine Caillot, draftsman 2005.0011
ACQUISITION SPOTLIGHT
Life on a Sugar Plantation, in Panorama
Vue d’une habitation en sucre fait a Limonade en 1757, Isle St-Domingue
015.0069
’he Collection recently acquired a are panoramic work on paper depict-ng an 18th-century sugar plantation n Limonade, Saint Domingue (above), he drawing, more than six feet long, was created in 1757 by French military ngineer, infantry captain, and draftsman acques Potier de Baldivia. The work is one f a series of drawings created by Baldivia while stationed on the island, between 755 and 1762. He returned to France in 762, after being wounded in a fight v, / • English soldiers during the Seven Vcj'; War. He was later made a Knight ot Order of St. Louis and remained irr. . - * *. ngineering adviser to Louis-Ph:l;r. .
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