COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07385
Record number:
07385-67
JCB call number:
E834 D288v / 3-SIZE
Image title:
Eliconia
Creator 1:
Jean Baptiste Debret
Creator 1 dates:
1768-1848
Creator 1 role:
del.
Creator 2:
Ch. Motte
Creator 2 role:
lith. de
Creator 3:
la Vtesse Paule. de Portès
Creator 3 role:
del.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Firmin Didot Frères]
Image date:
[1834]
Image function:
plate 6; vol. 1 (2e Cahier), following p. 10
Technique:
lithograph
Image dimension height:
32.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
21 cm.
Page dimension height:
53.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
34 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of a riverbank with various kinds of vegetation, a caiman, waterbirds, palm tree, and heliconia plant.
Source creator:
Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848
Source Title:
Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil ... Tome premier
Source place of publication:
Paris
Source publisher:
Firmin Didot Frères, imprimeurs de l'Institut de France, libraires, rue Jacob, no. 24.
Source date:
M DCCC XXXIV [1834]
notes:
This plant belongs to the genus Heliconia.The lithographs in this book were made from drawings made by Debret during his fifteen-year residence (1816-1831) in Brazil.Lithographer is probably Charles Etienne Pierre Motte (French printmaker and draftsman, 1785-1836).
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Caimans
Subject headings:
Heliconia
Subject headings:
Natural history--Brazil
Eliconia
