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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
72-196
Record number:
72-196-8
JCB call number:
C798 V441f
Image title:
[Sugar mill with waterwheel]
Creator 1:
Vianna
Creator 1 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[Lisbon]
Image publisher:
No Arco do Cego
Image date:
[1799]
Image function:
fold-out plate 3; vol. 1, pt. 2, following p. 418
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
22.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
33.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Sugar mill run by an overshoot waterwheel. Includes black men [slaves] putting the sugar cane into the grinding or mill stones. Another man arranges a pile of canes. Includes gears, tackle and hooks in ceiling, and trough carrying sugar juice away. Items in the image are lettered for identification in preceding text.
Source creator:
Velloso, José Mariano da Conceiçao, 1742-1811
Source Title:
[Fazendeiro do Brazil] O fazendeiro do Brazil ... Tom. I. Part. II
Source place of publication:
[Lisbon]
Source publisher:
Na Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira
Source date:
M. DCC. XCVIIII. [1799]
notes:
The sugar cane juice flows from the mill to the factory where it is refined.A noted botantist, Velloso was appointed director of the press, Arco do Cego, incorporated in 1798 into the royal printing office. Meant to modernize the Portuguese empire, the Arco do Cego published at least 80 works in three years on various topics, including agriculture, navigation, and medicine.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Visual categories:
Mechanical drawings
Subject matter:
inventions
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1972.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Sugar factories
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining

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