Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Indigoaria, ou fabrica de anil.

Accession number: 
72-196
Record number: 
72-196-24
JCB call number: 
C798 V441f
Image title: 
Indigoaria, ou fabrica de anil.
Creator 1: 
Vianna
Creator 1 role: 
grav.
Place image published: 
[Lisbon]
Image publisher: 
[Royal Press]
Image date: 
[1806]
Image function: 
fold-out plate 2; vol. 2, part 1, following p. [342]
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
15.6 cm.
Image dimension width: 
21.7 cm.
Page dimension height: 
19.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
24.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Portuguese
Description: 
Indigo processing plant. Three enslaved Black people work at the processing pools. Includes wooden tables for drying indigo, indigo knife and sampling bowl, cones for drying indigo, bucket, dwellings, and waterfall. Items in the image are lettered for identification in preceeding text.
Source creator: 
Velloso, José Mariano da Conceiçao, 1742-1811
Source Title: 
[Fazendeiro do Brazil] O fazendeiro do Brazil ... Tom. II. Parte I
Source place of publication: 
Lisboa [Lisbon]
Source publisher: 
Na Impressam Regia
Source date: 
1806
notes: 
This image is also in Il gazzettiere Americano, Livorno [Leghorn], 1763. A noted botantist, Velloso was appointed director of the press, Arco do Cego, incorporated in 1798 into the royal printing office. Meant to modernize the Portuguese empire, the Arco do Cego published at least 80 works in three years on various topics, including agriculture, navigation, and medicine.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1972.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Brazil
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Indigo industry
Subject headings: 
Indigo--Brazil
Subject headings: 
Slavery--Brazil