Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Verbena, Lygistum, and Knoxia]
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Accession number:
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64-27
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Record number:
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64-27-4
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JCB call number:
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D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Verbena, Lygistum, and Knoxia]
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Creator 1:
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Georg Dionysius Ehret
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Creator 1 dates:
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1708-1770
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Creator 1 role:
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delin
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Creator 2:
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H Roberts
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Creator 2 role:
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Sculp
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
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Image date:
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[1756]
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Image function:
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plate 3; following p. 374
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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31.2 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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19.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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35 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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22 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Inscription:
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l.c.: 1. Verbena. 2. Lygistum .. 3. Knoxia
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Description:
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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.
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Source creator:
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Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790
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Source Title:
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The civil and natural history of Jamaica. ...
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn.
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Source date:
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MDCCLVI [1756]
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notes:
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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.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?15251; http://www.botanicus.org/primeocr/botanicus3/b11953664/31753002748231/31753002748231_0240.txt; http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?search=Aegiphila+elata (Oct. 2007)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1963; former collections of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwiliam; Charles William de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam; Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Jamaica
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Subject headings:
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Verbena
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Subject headings:
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Botany--Jamaica
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