COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
98-75
Record number:
98-75-24
JCB call number:
H790 C351s
Image title:
Il Nopal ossia pianta della Cocciniglia
Creator 1:
G. B.
Place image published:
[Milan]
Image publisher:
[Giuseppe Marelli]
Image date:
[1792]
Image function:
plate LXXXIII [83]; vol. 4, following p. 94
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
24.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
17.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Italian
Description:
Prickly pear or nopal cactus and cactus flowers. Includes detail of cochineal insect seen from top and bottom. 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 IV
Source place of publication:
Milano [Milan]
Source publisher:
Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Marelli
Source date:
1792
notes:
The nopal cactus is significant as a source of food and medicine. It was also the food of the cochineal insect whose body produced a commercially important red dye. Scientific name: Opuntia ficus-indica.
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:
Natural history--Mexico
Il Nopal ossia pianta della Cocciniglia
