Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Coupe relative au Plan et Elevation d'une Nouv[e]lle Sucrerie ...

Accession number: 
06290
Record number: 
06290-5
JCB call number: 
E763 P923m
Image title: 
Coupe relative au Plan et Elevation d'une Nouv[e]lle Sucrerie ...
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[Cl. J.B. Bauche]
Image date: 
[1763]
Image function: 
fold-out plate V; end of book
Technique: 
etching
Image dimension height: 
16.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
44.7 cm.
Page dimension height: 
19.7 cm.
Page dimension width: 
51.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
French
Description: 
Sections, elevations, and diagrams of a new sugar mill. Includes details of the mill or grinding stones, evaporation ovens, storage areas or warehouse, distillery, and a scale.
Source creator: 
Préfontaine, Chevalier de
Source Title: 
Maison rustique, a l'usage des habitans... de Cayenne.
Source place of publication: 
A Paris
Source publisher: 
Chez Cl. J.B. Bauche, libraire, à Sainte Genevieve, & à Saint Jean dans le desert
Source date: 
M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]
notes: 
Préfontaine spent most of his life in Cayenne and wrote on how to set up a plantation there.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Guianas
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Sugar factories--French Guiana
Subject headings: 
Sugar--Manufacture and refining--French Guiana