Overseer Collection

Portrait of Jacob Gerritsz van der Mij (1559/60-1635?), 1630. Creator: Joris van Schooten
Portrait of Jacob Gerritsz van der Mij (1559/60-1635?), 1630

Brazilian Sugar-Mill, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Brazilian Sugar-Mill, 1854. View of...the interior of the Mill-house on a Brazilian Sugar Estate during the time of grinding, with a Mill of an improved construction

Plantation overseer, Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plantation overseer. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Overseer in the turpentine woods, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Overseer in the turpentine woods. Georgia

Overseer in the turpentine woods, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Overseer in the turpentine woods. Georgia

Overseer Shabti of Isetemkheb, Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21 (1069-945 BCE)

Shabti, Overseer of Tchenetipet, Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21 (1069 BCE-945 BCE)

Scarab: Title (Seal-Bearer of the King of Lower Egypt, Overseer of Sealed Goods) and Personal Name (Har), Egypt, Second Intermediate Period, Dynasties 15-17 (about 1650-1550 BCE)

Scarab: Title (Overseer of the Granary) and Name (Djehuty), Egypt, Second Intermediate Period-New Kingdom, Dynasties 17-18 (about 1580-1525 BCE)

Canopic Jar of the Overseer of the Builders of Amun, Amenhotep, Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II (about 1427-1400 BCE)

Francesco I d Este Assists His Subjects with Great Generosity During the Great Famine of 1648 and 1649, from L Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d Este

Slave labour on a cotton plantation in the southern states of America, 1860. Putting cotton bolls through a whipping press before putting the cotton through a saw gin

Scene from slave life, 1965. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965

A meal after the gathering of coffee, Brazil, 19th century. Artist: A de Neuville
A meal after the gathering of coffee, Brazil, 19th century. The white plantation overseer presides at a meal for the black workers after the coffee harvest

Harvesting the coffee, Brazil, 19th century. Artist: A de Neuville
Harvesting the coffee, Brazil, 19th century

Sugar Plantation, New Orleans, 1870. Artist: A R Ward
Sugar Plantation, New Orleans, 1870. Crushing the sap out of sugar cane. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London)

Producing indigo dye with slave labour: West Indies or Central America, 1725. Indigo tinctoria is cut, tied in bundles, steeped in water and fermented in the centre tank

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Artist: Lester
Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Negro slaves washing for alluvial gold watched over by a slave master brandishing a whip

Detail of an Egyptian stele showing an overseer, slaves and scribe
Detail of a stele showing an overseer, slaves and scribe at the Musee Guico, Bologna, Italy

Negro slaves washing for diamonds watched over by supervisors with whips, Brazil, 1815. Brazil was the largest market in the Americas for African slaves

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