COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
98-75
Record number:
98-75-13
JCB call number:
H790 C351s
Image title:
La Manioca
Creator 1:
Benedetto Bordiga
Creator 1 dates:
1768-1847
Place image published:
[Milan]
Image publisher:
[Giuseppe Marelli]
Image date:
[1792]
Image function:
plate XLIV [44]; vol. 2, following p. 168
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:
Cassava or manioc showing tubers, flowers, fruits, seed, stem, and leaves. Items in the image are lettered for identification in text at left.
Source creator:
Castiglioni, Luigi, 1757-1832
Source Title:
Storia delle piante forestiere le più importanti nell'uso medico, od economico ... Tomo II
Source place of publication:
Milano [Milan]
Source publisher:
Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Marelli
Source date:
1792
notes:
Native to Brazil, the scientific name for cassava is Manihot esculenta or utilissima; here said to be eaten by the people of 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:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Brazil
La Manioca
