About This Item
Title
Humulus lupulus
Subject
Plants, Medicinal
Humulus
Book Illustrations
Description
Engraved by Annin and Smith from a drawing by Jacob Bigelow(?).
Colored engraving of Humulus lupulus or Common Hop "in fruit" (Figure 1) with "Fertile flowers" (Figure 2), "Calyx and pistil of do (the corolla omitted by mistake of the engraver" (Figure 3), "Barren flowers " (Figure 4), and "Stamen magnified" (Figure 5).
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.pl60
Original Format
1 print : engraving, color
Physical Dimensions
22 x 16 cm
Citation
Annin & Smith and Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879, “Humulus lupulus,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed December 25, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/141.