Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [The Balsam; or the Sea-Side Sage]
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Accession number:
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34029
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Record number:
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34029-11
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JCB call number:
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D750 H893n / 3-SIZE
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Image title:
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[The Balsam; or the Sea-Side Sage]
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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[Printed for the author]
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Image date:
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[1750 ]
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Image function:
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plate 10, following p. 142
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Technique:
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engraving, colors
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Image dimension height:
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29.7 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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19.4 cm. (platemark)
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Page dimension height:
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44.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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28 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Branch of two species of plant. Includes flowers on the branch on the left-hand side. Title taken from chapter heading. "To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle.This Plate is humbly inscrib'd, &c." Includes the [Newcastle?] coat of arms.
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Source creator:
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Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7
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Source Title:
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The natural history of Barbados. In ten books.
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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 the author; and sold by most booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland
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Source date:
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1750
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notes:
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The branch of the left-hand shrub is a member of the Euphorbiaceae genus, Croton flavens L., commonly called ti baume or copahu in French West Indies islands and yellow croton in English Caribbean territories. The right-hand branch is unidentified.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1871.
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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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Caribbean islands
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Caribbean area
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