Plantation on Mindanao

Description

hand-coloured wood engraving-xylograph view of a Mindanao plantation, [after ‘Montano’s Voyage Aux Philippines 1879-81(?);

It shows women pounding rice, a smithery in the background, and the plantation’s horses prominently featured. Xylography was a woodblock printing process, popular from the mid-19th to the early-20th century, commonly used to produce illustrations in magazines or children’s books.