MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-7
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Pavetta or wild jasmine and Coccocipsilum]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin.
Creator 2:
J. Noual
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
[1756]
Image function:
plate 6; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
21.1 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Inscription:
l.c.: 1. Pavetta. 2. Coccosipilum
Description:
Figure 1 depicts the wild jasmine vine and details of its seeds. Figure 2 depicts branches of the coccoypselum plant with details of its flower and seed.
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:
Wild jasmine may be a form noted in the nineteenth century as having been introduced from the East Indies and naturalized in Jamaica. Coccocipsilum or Coccocypselum is identified as from the family Rubiacaea (madders) and genus Sicelium.Image title from pp. 142 and 144 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
References:
http://www.bgbm.org… http://www.crescent… (Oct. 2007)
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:
Botany--Jamaica

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