COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06944
Record number:
06944-68
JCB call number:
D796 S812n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Sprig of the Indigo Plant.
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Image date:
Decr. 1st. 1791
Image function:
plate 72; vol. 2, following p. 304
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
18.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
29 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Branch of the indigo plant showing leaves, seeds, and a square of indigo ready for use as dye. 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:
Indigo was first mentioned in a written western source in the writing of Herodotus (writing around 450 B.C.) and was a valued product from medieval times on. An indigenous variety of indigo began to be cultivated on the Pacific slopes of Central America in the 1560s. Scientific name: Indigofera suffructicosa (variety native to South and Cental America).
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
Sprig of the Indigo Plant.
