COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
98-75
Record number:
98-75-16
JCB call number:
H790 C351s
Image title:
La Batata
Creator 1:
Benedetto Bordiga
Creator 1 dates:
1768-1847
Place image published:
[Milan]
Image publisher:
[Giuseppe Marelli]
Image date:
[1792]
Image function:
plate LII [52]; vol. 3, following p. 30
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
24.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
17.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Italian
Description:
Sweet potato plant showing tubers, stem, leaves, and flower. Includes detail of flower and seed. 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 III
Source place of publication:
Milano [Milan]
Source publisher:
Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Marelli
Source date:
1792
notes:
Scientific name: Ipomoea batatas (Convolvulaceae). Here the plant is described as coming from South America.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1998.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Ipomoea
La Batata
