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Datura stramonium B

About This Item

Title

Datura stramonium B

Subject

Plants, Medicinal
Datura stramonium
Book Illustrations

Description

Engraved by W. B. Annin from a drawing by Jacob Bigelow(?).
Colored engraving of a flowering leafed branch of "Datura stramonium" or Thornapple (Figure 1) with "stamens and style" (Figure 2) and "transverse section of the pericarp, showing cells, receptacles and seeds" (Figure 3).

Creator

Annin, William B., 1791?-1839
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

Source

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.pl1

Original Format

1 print : engraving, color

Physical Dimensions

21 x 14 cm

Citation

Annin, William B., 1791?-1839 and Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879, “Datura stramonium B,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed March 28, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/82.