MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
08453
Record number:
08453-2
JCB call number:
E776 N653e (copy 1)
Image title:
[Bois dentelle]
Creator 1:
Moithey L'ainé
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Gobreau]
Image date:
[1776]
Image function:
fold-out plate 1; following p. 172
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
15.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
24.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Branch of a tree called bois dentelle. Includes numbered details of gauze (made from the bark of the tree?), leaves, calix, fruit, and seeds. Numbered parts are identified in text.
Source creator:
Nicolson, pere
Source Title:
Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'isle de Saint-Domingue, avec des figures en taille-douce.
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Gobreau, libraire, Quai des Augustins, à Saint Jean-Baptiste.
Source date:
M.DCC.LXXVI [1776]
notes:
This plant may be Lagetta lintearia. Text notes uses to which the Black people of Haiti put the gauze made from its bark. Image title from text.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Subject matter:
Saint Domingue
References:
http://elpinto.free… (Feb. 2008)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
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:
Botany--Haiti
Subject headings:
Natural history--Haiti

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