Harvest on the Hillside: Tea Workers, South India, c. 1890
Harvest on the Hillside: Tea Workers, South India, c. 1890 - Small (8x10") is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Harvest on the Hillside: Tea Workers, South India, c. 1890
Details
• Museum-grade reproduction of a sepia-toned photograph (c. 1890s)
• Depicts dozens of workers—primarily women—harvesting tea on a rocky slope in colonial India
• A rare wide-angle composition capturing labor, landscape, and layered humanity
• Digitally restored for tonal balance and compositional clarity
• Printed on archival cotton rag paper with pigment-based, fade-resistant inks
About the Artwork
This sweeping image from the late 19th century captures the vast human effort behind one of South Asia’s most iconic exports: tea. Against a steep hillside scattered with stones and trees, a large assembly of plantation workers—many of them women in draped saris—pose amidst the rows of tea plants. Their expressions are mixed: some direct, others lost in the enormity of the terrain. Taken during British colonial rule in South India, the photograph preserves a powerful visual record of labor, hierarchy, and agricultural rhythm.
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