Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
06944
Record number:
06944-60
JCB call number:
D796 S812n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
The Musk Melon, Water-Melon & Pine Apple.
Creator 1:
A. Smith
Creator 1 role:
sculpt.
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Image date:
Decr. 1st. 1791
Image function:
plate 64; vol. 2, following p. 214
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
18.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
29 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Musk melon, two watermelons, and two pineapples.
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:
The musk melon, Cucumis melo, is at the top. The watermelon, Citrullus vulgaris Schrad, known in Surinamese as watramoen, is in the middle. The pineapple, Ananas comosus, is at the bottom.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject headings:
Natural history--Suriname
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
Commentary:

The Musk Melon, Water-Melon & Pine Apple.

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