Antique Jamaican Sugar Mill Engineering Engraving, Bryan Edwards, 1818

Name: Antique Jamaican Sugar Mill Engineering Engraving, Bryan Edwards, 1818
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13306-1-15
Price: 145 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1818
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 26.8 × 21 cm (10.6 × 8.3 in)
Condition: Fair. Wear consistent with age and use. Good antique condition with considerable age-related toning, foxing and scattered spotting throughout the sheet. Some creasing, minor edge wear and paper irregularities are visible, consistent with age and removal from the original volume.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Jamaica
Reference: BG-13306-1-15

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The machinery of a Jamaican sugar mill, an original engraved technical plate titled "Elevation & Plan of an improved Sugar Mill, by Edward Woollery Esq.r of Jamaica", signed "J. Record sculp." It was published in the 1818 London edition of Bryan Edwards' History of the British West Indies.

The upper half is an elevation of the mill: a wooden frame holding three upright rollers side by side, with horizontal timbers above and long angled braces to either side, and a toothed wheel at the right. Below it, separate diagrams show the parts: three circles for the rollers, one of them marked with a diameter in inches, a roller gudgeon, a pivot, a step, a lantern wheel with its pegs, a toothed spur wheel and a brass bearing. A lettered key beneath explains each part, from the side roller gudgeon (a) and the rollers or cylinders (b) to the lantern wheel (e) and the spur wheel (g).

Mills of this type crushed sugar cane to extract the juice, and sugar was the basis of Jamaica's plantation economy, which depended on enslaved labor. Edwards (1743 to 1800) was a Jamaica planter and historian.

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