COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02-15
Record number:
02-15-66
JCB call number:
E835 O64v / 2-SIZE
Image title:
1. Cocos yatai. 2. Cocos australis. 3. Copernicia cerifera
Creator 1:
P. Oudart
Creator 1 role:
pinxt.
Creator 2:
Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny
Creator 2 dates:
1802-1857
Creator 2 role:
d'après
Creator 3:
Breton
Creator 3 role:
Sculpt.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
P. Bertrand
Image date:
[1839]
Image function:
plate 1; vol. 7, part 2
Technique:
lithograph, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
27.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
24 cm.
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
26.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American wearing a poncho and holding a lasso walks towards a horse in a grove of coconut and wax palms. Includes flowers and fruits of the palm, as well as scales.
Source creator:
Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d', 1802-1857
Source Title:
[Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale] Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, ... l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou) ... Tome septième
Source place of publication:
Paris; Strasbourg
Source publisher:
Chez P. Bertrand, éditeur ... ; Chez V[euv]e. LeVrault ...
Source date:
1839
notes:
The leaves of the wax palm, Copernicia cerifera Mart., produce a valuable kind of wax.Originally issued in 90 fascicles between 1834 and 1847; typically bound in 7 to 11 volumes.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2002.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Palms
Subject headings:
Natural history--South America
1. Cocos yatai. 2. Cocos australis. 3. Copernicia cerifera
