Diorama of the Zeezigt Coffee and Cotton Plantation
Also titled Diorama van de koffie- en katoenplantage Zeezigt
Gerrit Schouten (Paramaribo (stad), 1779–1839)
c. 1815 - c. 1821
- Medium
- paper, wood (plant material), paint (coating), Perspex (TM), glue
- Classification
- diorama
- Dimensions
- height 45 cm x width 150 cm x depth 30 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In the mid-19th century, almost 800 men, women and children held in slavery worked on the Zeezigt coffee and cotton plantation. Yet only a few of them are to be seen in the diorama. They sweep the coffee-drying floor, spread the cotton in the sun and work in the carpentry workshop. Schouten also depicted an overseer on horseback taking a fugitive man back to the plantation.
