This depicts Waltham, north-west Grenada, as it was in 1969. Benjamin chose a high viewpoint looking across the former plantation towards the sea. The ruins of Waltham’s aqueduct that fed the enormous waterwheel which turned the mill to crush the sugarcane is depicted in the back left of the painting.

The road that borders the sea and the estate, originally constructed under French rule by enslaved African people, is visible in the top right. The stone wall in the foreground may be remnants of other estate buildings or re-used stone from them.

This painting was conserved in 2022 with a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.