Drawing, Water Carriers on the Magdalena (Bay), Barranquilla, Republic of Nueva Grenada, now Colombia, May 2, 1853

Horizontal view shows men, women and children upon or beside donkeys, most of whom carry barrels, while in the river a boat with four men is visible being rowed in left middle distance and an empty boat lies in the river in the right foreground. A wooded bank, visible in the distance, contains a fenced cocoanut grove, a house, and two figures at right. Scattered clouds in the sky. A woman’s head with a water barrel is visible at upper left.