MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
34029
Record number:
34029-12
JCB call number:
D750 H893n / 3-SIZE
Image title:
[The Bay-Berry-Tree; Lat. Myrtus arborea aromatica]
Creator 1:
Ehret, Georg Dionysius
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin. & sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Printed for the author]
Image date:
[1750 ]
Image function:
plate 10 [sic], following p. 144
Technique:
engraving, colors
Image dimension height:
29.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19.7 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
44.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
28 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Myrtle tree or bayberry tree showing leaves and berries. Title taken from chapter heading. "To the Right Honourable The Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner of Trade and Plantations. This Plate is humbly inscrib'd, &c." Includes the [Halifax?] 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:
This shrub was identified and named by Sir Hans Sloane and its berries are also known as pimenta, allspice, and Jamaica pepper. The text describing this plate does not give the plate number.
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

[The Bay-Berry-Tree; Lat. Myrtus arborea aromatica]

     
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[The Bay-Berry-Tree; Lat. Myrtus arborea aromatica]