COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
98-75
Record number:
98-75-009
JCB call number:
H790 C351s
Image title:
Il Campuccio
Creator 1:
Benedetto Bordiga
Creator 1 dates:
1768-1847
Place image published:
[Milan]
Image publisher:
[Giuseppe Marelli]
Image date:
[1791]
Image function:
plate XXIV [24]; vol. 1, following p. 204
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
24.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
17.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Italian
Description:
Part of the logwood tree showing flowers, heart-shaped leaves, legume pods, and branches. Items in the image are lettered for identification in adjoining text.
Source creator:
Castiglioni, Luigi, 1757-1832
Source Title:
Storia delle piante forestiere le più importanti nell'uso medico, od economico ... Tomo I
Source place of publication:
Milano [Milan]
Source publisher:
Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Marelli
Source date:
1791
notes:
Logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum) is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to southern Mexico and northern Central America. It is named after the town of Campeche, Mexico, and is used as a source of dye.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1998.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Il Campuccio
