Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Bignonia Catalpa. Catalpa.

Accession number: 
05800
Record number: 
05800-115
JCB call number: 
E810 M622 / 1-SIZE
Image title: 
Bignonia Catalpa. Catalpa.
Creator 1: 
Bessa
Creator 1 role: 
del.
Creator 2: 
Gabriel
Creator 2 role: 
sc.
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[L. Haussmann]
Image date: 
[1813]
Image function: 
plate 6 [fourth count]; vol. 3, following p. 216
Technique: 
stipple engraving, color printing, hand coloring
Image dimension height: 
19.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
13.2 cm.
Page dimension height: 
26.9 cm.
Page dimension width: 
17.1 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Branch of the Bignonia catalpa or catalpa (catawba) tree with its flower, fruit, and seed. Items are numbered for identification in text.
Source creator: 
Michaux, François André, 1770-1855
Source Title: 
Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, considérés principalement sous les rapports de leur usage dans les arts et de leur introduction dans le commerce, ... Tome III.
Source place of publication: 
Paris
Source publisher: 
De L'Imprimerie de L. Haussmann.
Source date: 
M. D. CCC. XIII. [1813]
notes: 
Southern Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides) is native to the southeastern United States. André Michaux and his son François-André were sent in 1785 by the French government to study the forest resources of North America. The French hoped to reforest their own country. François-André returned a few years later, also with a commission from the French government, and produced the Histoire des arbres forestiers ... Paris, 1810-13.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
References: 
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CASP8 (June 2008)
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
North America
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject headings: 
Catalpa
Subject headings: 
Botany--North America
Subject headings: 
Natural history--North America