MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
70-33
Record number:
70-33-2
JCB call number:
E685 D861tr
Image title:
[Native American and chocolate]
Place image published:
[Lyon]
Image publisher:
[Jean Girin & Barthélémy Rivière]
Image date:
1685
Image function:
plate; following p. 304
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
8.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
[top] A native American is shown with feathered headdress, garments, and ornaments. He holds a bow, and arrow, and a war club. At his feet is a chocolate pot, cup, and stirrer. [bottom] Branch from a cacao tree showing fruit and leaves. Includes vanilla bean pods.
Source creator:
Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687
Source Title:
[De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate.] Traitez nouveaux & curieux du café, du thé et du chocolate
Source place of publication:
[A Lyon]
Source publisher:
[Chez Iean Girin & B. Riviere]
Source date:
1685
notes:
An enlarged edition of author's De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate, Lyon, 1671, compiled from various authors. Title page missing in this copy.The scientific name of cacao is Theobroma cacao. The vanilla plant is an orchid that grows as a vine and is native to Mexico. The Nahuatl name tlilxochitl means black flower (referring to the pod).
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1969.
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 Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico
Subject headings:
Cacao

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