COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
67-123
Record number:
67-123-5
JCB call number:
D824 C156j / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Tree in a garden at Bahia.
Creator 1:
Lady Maria Callcott
Creator 1 dates:
1785-1842
Creator 1 role:
Drawn by
Creator 2:
Edward Francis Finden
Creator 2 dates:
1791-1857
Creator 2 role:
Engraved by
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Longman & Co. & J. Murray
Image date:
1824
Image function:
plate; following. p. 135
Technique:
aquatint
Image dimension height:
14 cm.
Image dimension width:
20.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
26.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of a tree with a church in the distance.
Source creator:
Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842
Source Title:
Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823. By Maria Graham.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-row; and J. Murray, Albemarle-street
Source date:
1824
notes:
The description of the plate in the Table of Contents identifies the tree as being a Gamella tree. The author of the book and artist of this image was married to Captain Thomas Graham and traveling to South America when he died on the voyage. She married the artist, Augustus Wall Callcott, in 1828. Image placed horizontally on page. Date on item is: 25, March, 1824.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1967.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Bahia (Brazil)--Description and travel
Tree in a garden at Bahia.
