About This Item
Title
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Subject
Plants, Medicinal
Apocynum
Book Illustrations
Description
Engraved by Annin and Smith from a drawing by Jacob Bigelow(?).
Colored engraving of branch of Apocynum androsaemifolium or Dog's Bane (Figure 1) with a "Pair of follicles" (Figure 2), a "Cone formed of the united stamens" (Figure 3), "Stamen detached" (Figure 4), "Side view of the calyx, nectaries and germs" (Figure 5), "Front view of the same" (Figure 6), and "A seed" (Figure 7).
Creator
Annin & Smith
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Source
Original image in: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879. American Medical Botany (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1820). Qx 116 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
American Medical Botany was intended for the public and offered descriptions of each depicted plant’s botanical history, chemical analysis, and medical uses. It was the only book published in the United States prior to the introduction of chromolithography to have its plates mechanically printed in color. Bigelow initially planned to use hand colored copperplate engravings but, when this proved be too ambitious, turned to aquatint plates printed in colors à la poupée, with some finished by hand.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1817
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
Qx_116.pl36
Original Format
1 print : engraving, color
Physical Dimensions
21 x 14 cm
Citation
Annin & Smith and Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879, “Apocynum androsaemifolium,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed December 6, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/117.