COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
10731
Record number:
10731-1
JCB call number:
D801 E26h
Image title:
The Bread Fruit of Otaheite.
Creator 1:
Franciscus Sansom
Creator 1 dates:
active 1785-1799
Creator 1 role:
sculpt.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
I. Stockdale, Piccadilly
Image date:
1794 October 6
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. xvi
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
23.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
18.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
23.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
28.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Breadfruit, showing fruit and leaves.
Source creator:
Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800
Source Title:
The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... Vol. I
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
Source date:
1801
notes:
Breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis, believed to be native to the Indo-Malayan archipelago and western Micronesia, was first seen by Europeans around 1595. Thought by some to be the answer for feeding slave populations in the Caribbean, its collection was at the center of European rivalry. The English and the French both competed to bring the tree to their colonies in the West Indies, the French perhaps succeeding as early as 1772 and the British by 1782. The famous mutiny against William Bligh, captain of the Bounty, centered around the loss of his cargo of 1,015 potted breadfruit plants in 1787. He subsequently delivered 2,126 plants to Jamaica in 1793. Here the name, Otaheite, refers to an island in the South Pacific discovered by Captain James Cook with whom Bligh first sailed as a navigator, now known as Tahiti. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
http://www.hort.pur… (Apr. 2004)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870?
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Jamaica