COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09534
Record number:
09534-2
JCB call number:
D763 G291a / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Canna da zucchero Platazione di zucchero
Creator 1:
G. M. Terrenise
Creator 1 role:
fe[cit]
Place image published:
[Leghorn]
Image publisher:
[Marco Coltellini]
Image date:
[1763]
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 110
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
24.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
18.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
31.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
24 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Italian
Description:
Sugar plantation showing fields of sugar cane, dwellings of enslaved Black people, the master's house, the sugar mills, storage house for the sugar. Botanical element consists of a detail of the sugar cane. Items in the image are lettered for identification in a key above.
Source Title:
Il gazzettiere Americano ... Volume secondo
Source place of publication:
In Livorno [Leghorn]
Source publisher:
Per Marco Coltellini all' Insegna della Verità
Source date:
MDCCLXIII [1763]
notes:
Text describes a sugar plantation in Jamaica. This gazeteer was translated from an English edition and was the first comprehensive geographical dictionary of America in Italian.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1984.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Jamaica
Subject headings:
Slavery--Caribbean area
Canna da zucchero Platazione di zucchero
