Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: The Bread Fruit of Otaheite.
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Accession number:
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10731
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Record number:
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10731-1
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JCB call number:
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D801 E26h
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Image title:
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The Bread Fruit of Otaheite.
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Creator 1:
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Franciscus Sansom
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Creator 1 dates:
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active 1785-1799
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Creator 1 role:
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sculpt.
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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I. Stockdale, Piccadilly
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Image date:
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1794 October 6
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Image function:
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fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. xvi
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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23.7 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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18.5 cm. (platemark)
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Page dimension height:
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23.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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28.5 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Breadfruit, showing fruit and leaves.
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Source creator:
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Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800
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Source Title:
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The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... Vol. I
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
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Source date:
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1801
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notes:
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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.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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References:
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http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/breadfruit.html (Apr. 2004)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1870?
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Jamaica
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