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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01798
Record number:
01798-2
JCB call number:
B577 M735j
Image title:
[Tobacco]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Willyam Norton]
Image date:
[1577]
Image function:
illustration; leaf 33 recto
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
11.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
13 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Tobacco plant.
Source creator:
Monardes, Nicolás, ca. 1512-1588
Source Title:
[Historia medicinal. English] Ioyfull nevves out of the newe founde worlde, wherein is declared the rare and singular vertues of diuerse and sundrie hearbes, trees, oyles, plantes and stones
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Poules Churche-yearde, by Willyam Norton
Source date:
1577
notes:
Monardes advocated the medicinal use of tobacco and listed 36 maladies which the herb cured, among them toothache, worms, halitosis, lockjaw, and cancer. This illustration is the first known of the tobacco plant in an English book. Scientific name: Nicotiana tabacum.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Arents, G. Tobacco, no. 24
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1854.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Tobacco--North America
Subject headings:
Natural history--North America

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