COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-4
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Verbena, Lygistum, and Knoxia]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin
Creator 2:
H Roberts
Creator 2 role:
Sculp
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
[1756]
Image function:
plate 3; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Inscription:
l.c.: 1. Verbena. 2. Lygistum .. 3. Knoxia
Description:
Figure 1 depicts a branch of Verbena; figure 2 depicts a branch of Lygistum; figure 3 depicts a branch of Knoxia. Includes details of their flowers and seeds.
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:
Lygistum may be synonymous with Manettia, a genus of about 80 species of lianas and twining herbs in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical America. Knoxia is probably Aegiphila elata, also known as tall spiritweed.Engraver may be Henry Roberts, British, ca. 1710-after 1790.Image title from pp. 116, 140, and 142 of text.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:
Natural history--Jamaica
Subject headings:
Verbena
Subject headings:
Botany--Jamaica
[Verbena, Lygistum, and Knoxia]
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