Sugar Plantation on the Mississippi

Description

Above New Orleans on January 22, the Arkansas passed numerous riverside settlements. Bodmer later recalled that "in most instances, the dwellings of the settlers are scarcely a rifle shot's distance from the riverbank." This group of sketches, made in the vicinity of a sugar plantation according to its inscription, is dated the day of Bodmer's departure from New Orleans. The property in question seems to be delineated at the middle left. Dim figures possibly representing Indians appear at the center.