COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06551
Record number:
06551-1
JCB call number:
B792 R934q
Image title:
a. Cinchona angustifolia. b. Gonzalagunia dependens.
Creator 1:
Isidro Gálvez
Creator 1 role:
del. et incid.
Place image published:
[Madrid]
Image publisher:
[Widow and heirs of Marín]
Image date:
1801
Image function:
fold-out plate; following p. 20
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
24.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
15.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
30.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Cinchona tree showing branch, leaves, and flowers. Includes details of flowers and seeds. Parts of seeds and flowers of Gonzalagunia dependens are illustrated at the bottom of image. Items in the image are lettered and numbered for identification in text.
Source creator:
Ruiz, Hipólito, 1754-1816
Source Title:
Suplemento á la Quinologia, en el qual se aumentan las especies de quina nuevamente descubiertas en el Perú por don Juan Tafalla
Source place of publication:
Madrid
Source publisher:
En la imprenta de la viuda e hijo de Marín
Source date:
1801
notes:
Cinchona or quinine bark was first documented for its curative effects on malaria in 1638 when the countess of Cinchon, wife of a Peruvian viceroy, was supposed to have been cured of a malarial type fever. Cinchona, one of forty species of trees, was not botanically classified until 1737. Until the seeds were stolen in 1865 and successfully planted in the Dutch East Indies, the tropical forests of northwestern South America were the sole sources of this valuable medicine.Scientific name: Cinchona officinalis.Gonzalagunia is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Cinchona bark--Peru
Subject headings:
Natural history--Peru
Subject headings:
Botany--Peru
a. Cinchona angustifolia. b. Gonzalagunia dependens.
