COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06944
Record number:
06944-46
JCB call number:
D796 S812n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
The Mountain Cabbage & Maureecee Tree.
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Image date:
Decr. 1st. 1791
Image function:
plate 50; vol. 2, following p. 68
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
17.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
29 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Probably the cabbage palm and the miriti palm. Includes two men, one of whom is climbing the palm tree. Items in the image are lettered for identification in adjacent text.
Source creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Source Title:
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam ... Vol. II.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall
Source date:
1796
notes:
This is probably the cabbage palm, Roystonea oleracea. The miriti palm, Mauritia flexuous, is known in Surinamese as morisi.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Price, R. & S., ed. Stedman Narrative, p. 674-678
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Suriname
The Mountain Cabbage & Maureecee Tree.
