COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03093
Record number:
03093-29
JCB call number:
E714 F426j / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Solanum Chenopodioides, acinis albescentibus.
Creator 1:
Louis Feuillée
Creator 1 dates:
1660-1732
Creator 1 role:
Bot. Reg. delin.
Creator 2:
P. Giffart
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre Giffart]
Image date:
[1714]
Image function:
plate XIV; vol. 2, following p. [768]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
21.8 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
15.7 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
25.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Tall or black nightshade, showing white berries, leaves, flowers, and roots.
Source creator:
Feuillée, Louis, 1660-1732
Source Title:
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques, et botaniques ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre Giffart, Libraire, Graveur du Roy, & de l'Académie Royale de Peinture & de Sculpture
Source date:
M. DCC. XIV. [1714]
notes:
Text (p. 721-722) describes a plant that cures fever and inflammation, as well as eye problems. Native Americans became aware of the curative effects of this plant after the arrival of Black people to the area around Valparaiso, Chile. Scientific name: Solanum chenopodioides. Engraving attributed to Pierre-François Giffart (1647-1723). Father Louis Feuillée was a French botanist and member of the Académie Royal des Sciences, who served as scientist and botanist on several French expeditions.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Natural history--Chile
Solanum Chenopodioides, acinis albescentibus.
