COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-10
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Two kinds of Lisianthus]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin.
Creator 2:
Edwards & Darley
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
[1756]
Image function:
plate 9; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
21.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Inscription:
l.c.: 1. Lisianthus .. 2. ..
Description:
Figure 1 depicts a branch of the lisianthus vine with its leaves and flowers and details of its flower and seed. Figure 2 depicts a different species of lisianthus with its leaves and flowers.
Source creator:
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790
Source Title:
The civil and natural history of Jamaica. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn.
Source date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
notes:
Lisianthus is now known as Eustoma. It is native to the Southern United States, Mexico, Caribbean and northern South America.Image title from p 157.In the plates the letter (a) indicates the empalement or cup; (b) the flower; (c) the filaments with their antherae; (d) the style and stigma; and (e), (f), and (g) the germen, fruit and seeds.Browne was an Irish medical doctor who settled in Jamaica in 1746. There he collected 1200 species of plants, 400 more than Sloane. He retired to Ireland in 1771.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1963; former collections of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwiliam; Charles William de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam; Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Eustomias
Subject headings:
Natural history--Jamaica
Subject headings:
Botany--Jamaica
[Two kinds of Lisianthus]
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