Description:

Photograph of a Georgian larder. This larder is in the Georgian House, Great George Street, Bristol, which was the former home of sugar merchant and plantation owner, John Pinney. The house is now a museum. The photograph shows a white sugar loaf in the centre and various domestic items of stoneware, copper and glass.Sugar produced by slaves on the Caribbean plantations was processed in Bristol.The finished product was a large crystalised loaf in the shape of a cone.

Creator: Elizabeth Rhodes/Roger Vaughn

Date: 2003

Copyright: Elizabeth Rhodes