COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03093
Record number:
03093-32
JCB call number:
E714 F426j / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Epipactis froribus uno versu dispositis Vulgò Nuil.
Creator 1:
Louis Feuillée
Creator 1 dates:
1660-1732
Creator 1 role:
Bot. Reg. delin.
Creator 2:
P. Giffart
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre Giffart]
Image date:
[1714]
Image function:
plate XVII; vol. 2, following p. [768]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
22.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
15.6 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
25.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Orchid, showing leaves, flowers, and roots.
Source creator:
Feuillée, Louis, 1660-1732
Source Title:
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques, et botaniques ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre Giffart, Libraire, Graveur du Roy, & de l'Académie Royale de Peinture & de Sculpture
Source date:
M. DCC. XIV. [1714]
notes:
Text (p. 726-727) describes a plant used as a diuretic by native Americans in Chile. Scientific name: Epipactis [?]. Engraving attributed to Pierre-François Giffart (1647-1723). Father Louis Feuillée was a French botanist and member of the Académie Royal des Sciences, who served as scientist and botanist on several French expeditions.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1865.
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--Chile
Epipactis froribus uno versu dispositis Vulgò Nuil.
