Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Magnolias]
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Accession number:
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35263
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Record number:
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35263-3
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JCB call number:
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D767 C359h / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Magnolias]
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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[J. Millan]
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Image date:
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[1767]
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Image function:
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plates 3, 2, 4; following p. 2
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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26.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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26.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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36.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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27 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Flowers from three magnolia trees, including the (3) Magnolia Lauri folio, subtus albicante, or the sweet flowering or rose bay, (2) Magnolia flore albo, folio majore or the magnolia of Pennsylvania, and the (4) Magnolia amplissima, flore albo, fructu coc
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Source creator:
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Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
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Source Title:
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Hortus Europae americanus: or, a collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America ...
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall
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Source date:
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M DCC LXVII [1767]
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notes:
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Identification of various magnolias supplied from text.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 2003.
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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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North America
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Botany--North America
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--North America
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