MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
85-22
Record number:
85-22-003
JCB call number:
E764 D869a
Image title:
[Interior of a sugar mill]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[L. F. Delatour]
Image date:
1764
Image function:
plate 3
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
20.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
44.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
29. 4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of the interior of a sugar mill showing men shoveling coal or charcoal into a pile and another man stirring the evaporation vats. Items in the image are lettered and numbered.
Source creator:
Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782
Source Title:
Art de rafiner le sucre. Par M. Duhamel du Monceau
Source place of publication:
[Paris]
Source publisher:
[L. F. Delatour]
Source date:
M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]
notes:
A separately issued fascicule of the Description des arts et metiers (Paris : Delatour, 1760-1775). This fascicule was reprinted in a revised edition, Paris, 1812. Bound with Beauvais Raseau, de. L'art de l'indigotier.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References exhibitions:
http://www.brown.ed…
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1985.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining

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