'Sugar canes' Farmtool c1761-1799

c1761-1799

In a close contest

people sit inside watching pedestrians pass in the street

The message was that this act was not to be taken as licence for further Fenian activity

'Sugar canes' Farmtool c1761-1799Botanical study of sugar canes. Figures can be seen in the background harvesting the crop. Plate from the book An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China., by John Nieuhoff (London, 1669). John Nieuhoff (1618 1672), Dutch traveller, was appointed steward of the mission to China under Peter van Goyer and Jacob van Keyser, ambassadors of the Dutch East India Company. Original: copperplate