MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
35263
Record number:
35263-15
JCB call number:
D767 C359h / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Leaves, flowers, and berries of trees]
Creator 1:
Mark Catesby
Creator 1 dates:
1683-1749
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[J. Millan]
Image date:
[1767]
Image function:
plates 82, 70, 81, 83; following p. 34
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
26.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
26.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
36.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
27 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Leaves, flowers, and berries or seeds of the (82) Frutex Virginianus trifolius ulmi samaris, (70) Cerasi similis, arbuscula Mariana poedi folio, flore albo parvo racemoso, or the clustered black cherry tree, (81) Alni folia Americana serrata, perhaps a wi
Source creator:
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
Source Title:
Hortus Europae americanus: or, a collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall
Source date:
M DCC LXVII [1767]
notes:
The scientific name of the wild black cherry tree is Prunus serotina. Identification of various shrubs supplied from text.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
http://www.duke.edu… (Apr. 2006)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2003.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Botany--North America
Subject headings:
Natural history--North America

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