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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
34029
Record number:
34029-21
JCB call number:
D750 H893n / 3-SIZE
Image title:
[The Pigeon-Pea-Tree; Lat. Cytisus]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Printed for the author]
Image date:
[1750 ]
Image function:
plate 19, following p. 198
Technique:
engraving, colors
Image dimension height:
29.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
44.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
28 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
The pigeon pea tree showing flowers and pods. Title taken from chapter heading. "To Richard Mead, M.D. Physician in Ordinary to the King. This Plate Is most humbly Inscribe'd &c." Includes the [Mead?] 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:
Scientific name: Cytisus cajan. The pigeon pea, an important legume grown in tropical and semitropical areas, was probably brought to the Americas from Africa as a result of the slave trade.
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

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