COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
M1544
Record number:
M1544-002
JCB call number:
D796 W787hu
Image title:
Tobacco Plant
Place image published:
New York
Image publisher:
Publish'd by Smith Reed and Wayland
Image date:
[1796]
Image function:
plate, vol. 3, following p. 426
Technique:
engraving, hand colored
Image dimension height:
18.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
11 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Tobacco plant including leaves, flowers and tobacco worm.
Source creator:
Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829
Source Title:
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
Source place of publication:
New-York
Source publisher:
Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien, for John Reid, bookseller and stationer, No. 106, Water-Street
Source date:
1796
notes:
Text describes the culture and harvesting of tobacco. The library holds two copies of this work which is complete in four volumes, however most of the plates are missing in the first copy and only this volume 3 of the 2nd copy is at the library.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1914.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Tobacco--North America
Tobacco Plant
