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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-23
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Acisanthera, Stemodiacra, Zygia, Omphalandria, and Vimen]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin.
Creator 2:
F. Garden
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
1755
Image function:
plate 22; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
30.8 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
21.1 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Branches of three plants with details of flower and seed of two other plants. Figure 1 is identified as Acisanthera. Figure 2 is identified as Stemodiacra. Figure 3 is identified as Zygia. Figure 4 is identified as Omphalandria. Figure 5 is identified as Vimen. Includes details of flowers and seeds. Items are lettered and numbered for identification in text.
Source creator:
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790
Source Title:
The civil and natural history of Jamaica. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn.
Source date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
notes:
Image title taken from pages 217, 261, 279, 335, and 369. Figure 1 may be Rhexia acisanthera. Figure 2 may be Stemodia maritima, a plant native to Jamaica and found along the seashore. Figure 3 is probably Zygia latifolia or horsewood or hoopwood, because its hard wood was used to make hoops. Omphalea is a genus of tropical shrubs or trees comprising 15 species; 12 are native to the Americas. Vimen means twig or vine. Browne notes only that this plant was a climber.In the plates the letter (a) indicates the empalement or cup; (b) the flower; (c) the filaments with their antherae; (d) the style and stigma; and (e), (f), and (g) the germen, fruit and seeds.Browne was an Irish medical doctor who settled in Jamaica in 1746. There he collected 1200 species of plants, 400 more than Sloane. He retired to Ireland in 1771.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Cassidy, F.G. A Dictionary of Jamaican English, Kingston, Jamaica, 2002, p. 231; http://ww2.bgbm.org… (Barcode: B -W 07211 -01 0 / ImageId: 264221); http://www.bgbm.org… (Mar. 2008)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1963; former collections of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwiliam; Charles William de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam; Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham.
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:
Natural history--Jamaica
Subject headings:
Botany--Jamaica

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