COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
34029
Record number:
34029-7
JCB call number:
D750 H893n / 3-SIZE
Image title:
[The French Physic-Nut; Lat. Ricinoides.]
Creator 1:
Ehret, Georg Dionysius
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
de:
Creator 2:
Bickham, George
Creator 2 dates:
1684?-1758?
Creator 2 role:
sc.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Printed for the author]
Image date:
[1750 ]
Image function:
plate 6, following p. 115
Technique:
engraving, colors
Image dimension height:
29.6 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19.4 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
44.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
28 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Branch of the castor oil plant. Includes detail of fruit and flower. Title taken from chapter heading. "To his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. This Plate is humbly inscribed, &c." Includes the English royal coat of arms.
Source creator:
Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7
Source Title:
The natural history of Barbados. In ten books.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for the author; and sold by most booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland
Source date:
1750
notes:
An annual plant whose beans are extremely poisonous, but from which a medicinal oil is made. Scientific name: Ricinus communis.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Caribbean area