COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0379
Record number:
0379-5
JCB call number:
B635 N675h / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Granadillae Ramvs
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Balthasaris Moreti]
Image date:
[1635]
Image function:
illustration; p. 299
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
17.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
33.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
The granadilla (granadillae ramvs) is shown with its fruit, flower, and leaves.
Source creator:
Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, 1595-1658
Source Title:
Ioannis Evsebii Nierembergii Madritensis ex Societate Iesu ... Historia natvrae, maxime peregrinae, libris XVI. distincta
Source place of publication:
Antverpiae [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti
Source date:
M.DC.XXXV [1635]
notes:
This plant is probably the passiflora (a granadilla or passion fruit).The instruments of Christ's Passion are literally depicted on different parts of the plant: the wounds, spears, crown of thorns, and chalice.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Peru
Granadillae Ramvs
