Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Cascalotte, Ahuehuete, Huisiache, Chia]
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Accession number:
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9491
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Record number:
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09491-2
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JCB call number:
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E772 C467v / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Cascalotte, Ahuehuete, Huisiache, Chia]
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Creator 1:
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Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy
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Creator 1 dates:
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1732-1789
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Creator 1 role:
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del.
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Creator 2:
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El[izabe]th. Haussard
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Creator 2 role:
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Sculp.
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[Charles-Antoine Jombert]
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Image date:
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[1772]
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Image function:
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plate 2; following p. 60
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Technique:
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etching
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Image dimension height:
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19.3 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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15.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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26 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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19.3 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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Description:
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Flowers, seeds, and branch of the Cascalote tree, Huisache shrub, Montezuma cypress, and chia plant. Items are numbered and lettered for identification and discussion in the text.
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Source creator:
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Chappe d'Auteroche, abbé, 1728-1769
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Source Title:
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[Voyage en Californie pour l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le disque du soleil] Voyage en Californie ...
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Source place of publication:
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A Paris
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Source publisher:
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Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, Libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie & le Génie, rue Dauphine, à l'Image Notre-Dame.
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Source date:
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M. DCC. LXXII. [1772]
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notes:
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Cascalotte (Cascalote in English) is Caesalpinia cacalaco, noted for its usefulness in making an excellent black dye (figs. 1-4). Huisiache (Huisache in English) is Acacia smallii also used for the creation of black dye, especially for ink (figs. 5-7). The ahuehuete tree is Taxodium mucronatum or Montezuma Cypress, one of which is claimed to be the tree with the largest trunk in North America (figs. 8-10). Chia is salvia hispanica used as a medicine, food, and for its oil which can be mixed with pigments (figs. 11-12).Chappe's journal concludes on p. 39, because shortly after his arrival at the mission of San Joseph, he died of an epidemic disease. His companions then simply fulfilled their mission of taking observations of the transit of Venus. Items depicted are described in a letter from Don Joseph Antoine de Alzate y Ramyrez to the Académie Royale des Sciences and sent to the Académie with Chappe's papers. Alzate was a priest born in Mexico who studied astronomy, physics, metallurgy, and antiquities. He was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences. Some time after the papers arrived, a trunk containing these specimens also arrived at the Académie. Alzate gathered his specimens from the area around Mexico City.Image title taken from accompanying text.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1882.
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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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Spanish America
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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--Mexico
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