COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
07598
Record number:
07598-019
JCB call number:
E575 T418c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Racine d'Hetich bonne à manger.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre L'Huillier]
Image date:
[1575]
Image function:
illustration; vol. 2, recto leaf 921
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
16.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
10.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
36 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Root vegetable, perhaps a sweet potato [?].
Source creator:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Source Title:
La cosmographie vniuerselle ... Tome seconde
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
chez Pierre L'Huillier, rue Sainct Iaques, à l'Oliuier
Source date:
1575
notes:
Text describes a root vegetable eaten by native Americans of the Caribbean or Caribs. Thevet, a Franciscan monk, traveled to Brazil with Nicolas Durand, chevalier de Villegagnon. He stayed only ten weeks, returning to France in 1556, and wrote Les singularitez de la France Antarctique from his own observations and those of others. As a result of the popularity of Les singularitez, Thevet received the position of cosmographer to the French court and wrote this book, an account of the known world. Title is from marginal gloss.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1875.
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--Caribbean area