# Diorama of the Zeezigt Coffee and Cotton Plantation

- By: Gerrit Schouten (Paramaribo (stad), 1779–1839)
- Date: 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](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/NG-1983-1--d006cdda7b776878fcb09b48c99caf73)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/nFuhC/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.