Details
Creator Annin, William B., 1791?-1839, engraver.
Title Datura stramonium b [graphic] / W. B. Annin sc
Publisher [Boston]: [Cummings and Hilliard]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1817
Date [1817]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored engraving; 25 x 16 cm (9.75 x 6.25 in.)
Description Book illustration containing three figures depicting the plant from the nightshade family commonly known as jimsonweed or thorn apple. "Fig. I" shows a "branch" of the medicinal and hallucinogenic plant with a thick, brown stem; green toothed leaves; and two lilac-colored, trumpet-shaped flowers; Fig. "II" shows the "stamen and style"; and Fig. III shows the "transverse section of the pericarp, showing the cells, receptacle and seeds."
Notes From Jacob Bigelow, American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, No. 1, Cornhill. University Press--Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817), vol. 1.
Pl. 1.
See William S. Reese's Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books (New York: The Grolier Club, 1999) entry #10.
Subject Datura stramonium.
Botany -- United States.
Botany, Medical -- United States.
Medicinal plants -- United States.
Materia medica, Vegetable -- United States.
Genre Botanical illustrations -- 1810-1820.
Book illustrations -- 1810-1820.
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1810-1820.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books| Rare| Am 1817 Bigel Log.2142.O.1 (Collins)
Accession number Log.2142.O.1 (collins)