MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
70-33
Record number:
70-33-1
JCB call number:
E685 D861tr
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
[Lyon]
Image publisher:
[Jean Girin & Barthélémy Rivière]
Image date:
1685
Image function:
added engraved title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
8.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Allegorical representations of beverages in the forms of an Asian man holding a cup of tea, an Arabic man holding a cup of coffee, and a native American man holding a cup of chocolate. Includes feathered headdress and garments, leg ornaments, bow, pot of chocolate, coffee and tea pots, and chocolate stirrer.
Source creator:
Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687
Source Title:
[De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate.] Traitez nouveaux & curieux du café, du thé et du chocolate
Source place of publication:
[A Lyon]
Source publisher:
[Chez Iean Girin & B. Riviere]
Source date:
1685
notes:
An enlarged edition of author's De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate, Lyon, 1671, compiled from various authors. Title page missing in this copy.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1969.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Emblems--America
Subject headings:
Chocolate

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