MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-38
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Trophis and Chytraculia]
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:
[1756]
Image function:
plate 37; following p. 374
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.2 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:
Three branches of plants with details of flowers and seeds. Figure 1 is identified as Trophis. Figure 2 is identified as Chytraculia. 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 239 and 357. Trophis is probably Trophis americana or racemosa, a tree used as cattle fodder and suggested as a substitute for the mulberry as food for silk worms. Both male and female forms are shown. Chytraculia is synonymous with the genus Calyptranthes; this may be Calyptranthes zuzygium or myrtle-of-the-river.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:
http://www.ars-grin… (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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