Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Indigo processing plant]

Accession number: 
72-196
Record number: 
72-196-30
JCB call number: 
C798 V441f
Image title: 
[Indigo processing plant]
Creator 1: 
M.
Creator 1 role: 
f.
Place image published: 
[Lisbon]
Image publisher: 
No Arco do Cego
Image date: 
[1800]
Image function: 
fold-out plate 5; vol. 2, part 2, following p. [263]
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
19.3 cm.
Image dimension width: 
13 cm.
Page dimension height: 
23.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
17.4 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Indigo processing plant showing a vat with a slurry which is being stirred up by two black men [slaves?]. Also includes two men pounding with mortar and pestle, a drying house with racks for drying indigo, a cross section of the pestle, a cross section of the drying house, a sheet with leaves or flowers, and a rack with bags and cones for drying indigo. Items in the image are lettered for identification in preceding text.
Source creator: 
Velloso, José Mariano da Conceiçao, 1742-1811
Source Title: 
[Fazendeiro do Brazil] O fazendeiro do Brazil ... Tomo II. Parte II
Source place of publication: 
Lisboa [Lisbon]
Source publisher: 
Na Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira
Source date: 
M. DCCC. [1800]
notes: 
This image is derived from an image in another volume of this work. Cf. 72-196-26.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: 
1751-1800
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