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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
35263
Record number:
35263-1
JCB call number:
A31a
Image title:
[upper left No. 50] [The Ivy-tree of Virginia.] [upper right No. 48] [The Trumpet-creeper or Cross vine.] [lower left No. 49] [The Trumpet-flower.] [lower right No. 47] [The Catalpa-tree.]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[J. Millan]
Image date:
[1767]
Image function:
plates 50, 48, 49, 47; following p. 24
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
26.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
26.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
36.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
27 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Flowers, seeds, and leaves of four trees and vines.
Source creator:
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
Source Title:
Hortus Europae Americanus: or, a collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall
Source date:
M DCC LXVII [1767]
notes:
No. 50 is identified in text as Chamaedaphne foliis tini, floribus bullatis umbellatis or the Ivy-tree of Virginia; it may be Kalmia latifolia, commonly known as mountain laurel. No. 48 is identified in text as Bignonia Americana Capreolis donant filiqua breviore; it is probably Bignonia capreolata; commonly known as cross vine. No. 49 is identified in text as Bignonia fraxini foliis, coccineo flore minore or the Trumpet-flower; it is Campsis radicans, commonly known as the trumpet vine or creeper. No. 47 is identified in the text as Bignonia urucu foliis, flore sordidè albo, ... or the Catalpa-tree; it is Catalpa bignonioides, commonly known as the Catalpa or Indian Bean tree.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
http://www.cnr.vt.e… http://www.cnr.vt.e… http://bluehen.ags.… (June 2003)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2003.
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:
Natural history--North America

[upper left No. 50] [The Ivy-tree of Virginia.] [upper right No. 48] [The Trumpet-creeper ...

     
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[upper left No. 50] [The Ivy-tree of Virginia.] [upper right No. 48] [The Trumpet-creeper or Cross vine.] [lower left No. 49] [The Trumpet-flower.] [lower right No. 47] [The Catalpa-tree.]