Image of Chili Peppers
Woodcut illustration of chili peppers (Capsicum annuum) including stems, leaves, and roots
This image is one of over five hundred woodcut illustrations that were part of a book written by Leonhart Fuchs, De Historia Stirpium commentarii insignes, which was originally published in 1542. Albrecht Meyer drew the plants based on observation, Heinrich Fullmaurer transferred these drawings to woodblocks, and Vitus Rudolph Speckle cut these blocks and printed the woodcut illustrations. The colors were later added by hand using watercolors. Several plants were illustrated for the first time in Fuchs' book, including the chili pepper. Fuchs made sure that the illustrations were true to life and that they depicted the plants in all stages of life. This demonstrates the purpose of the images in this book, which was to be a practical guide for those studying the sciences, particularly medicine.
Albrecht Meyer, Heinrich Fullmaurer, and Vitus Rudolph Speckle (with input from Leonhart Fuchs)
De Historia Stirpium commentarii insignes (Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants) by Leonhart Fuchs
The source of this image was Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Meyer25.jpg. The source of the WikiCommons image was the Andersen Horticultural Library.
This book can also be found on Hathi Trust, as well as at https://archive.org/details/Dehistoriastirp00Fuch, with the Biodiversity Heritage Library as the digitizing sponsor and Smithsonian Libraries as the book contributor.
Basileae: In officina Insingriniana (Basel, Michael Insingrin)
Originally published in 1542
Jennifer Rutishauser
No longer under copyright protection, Public Domain
Latin text in Leonhart Fuchs' De Historia Stirpium commentarii insignes
The original image was a woodcut illustration within a book, dimensions: 34.5 x 23 cm. It is published here as a digital image with dimensions 500 x 808 pixels.
Latin
Woodcut illustration with watercolors
The first depiction of chili peppers for an educated European audience
16th century Europe
Pepper Plant, Piment ou Poivre d'Inde
Pepper Plant
This image is an ink drawing of a pepper plant found in Bryan Edwards' "The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies." The illustration appears in Volume I-II.
Anonymous
The Mariners' Museum
"The Great Exchange: Plants"
Mariners' Museum
"The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies" published 1794
Delaney Coveno
"The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies" was published before 1923, and therefore is in the public domain and is available for use without copyright restrictions or limits.
Mariners' Museum Library
The image was originally an ink drawing on paper, appearing in a book. Published here as a digital image with 371x364 pixels.
French (Book is in English)
Ink illustration in 18th century book
This image is an illustration of a pepper plant published in an 18th century history book. An image of a pepper plant is included in this work because peppers were important to trade and colonization in the West Indies.
18th century British colonial trade and agriculture in the West Indies
Green Gram
Mung Bean, Phaseolus mungo
Mung bean plant
This image is a woodcut illustration of a mung bean plant found in Petrus de Crescentius' "Ruralia Commoda." The image is found in Book 3 of the volume ("Agriculture of Cereals and Building of a Granary") in a section entitled "Of Fieldwork and its Products". The volume was intended to provide images and instructions in horticulture and agriculture to European audiences.
Anonymous Artist
"Ruralia Commoda"
Image located via Arstor Digital Library
Likely Peter Drach of Speyer (Germany)
Artstor Digital Library
1490-1495
Petrus de Crescentiis, author of the volume in which the image is published.
Carolyn Allain
Rights to the image held by Artstor Collections. Image is open to the public for non-commercial uses.
The image is a woodcut illustration appearing in a book. Published here as a digital image of dimensions 2410x3072 pixels.
Latin
Woodcut Illustration
The image is an illustration of a mung bean plant meant for educational purposes for a fifteenth century agricultural European audience.
Fifteen century agricultural Europe.
Historia de las Indias, volume 5
The taste and significance of the peanut in Native American culture
Spanish historian and missionary Bartolome de las Casas records his interactions with the native peoples of the West Indies, including their foods. In this excerpt, he describes specifically the taste and significance of the peanut, or maní.
Bartolome de las Casas
M. Ginesta, University of Michigan
1561
Emily Grasso
Public domain
Digitized book
Spanish
Book, historical
Madonna and Child
Cucumber in the upper left corner
Carlo Crivelli
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1480
Kansas Guidry
Public Domain
Tempera and gold on wood
Painting
14 7/8 x 10 inches
The General History of China Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet; Including an Exact and Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Religion, Arts, and Sciences : The Whole Adorn'd with Curious Maps, and Variety of Copper-Plates.
China, Korea, Tibet
An encyclopedic survey of China, Tibet, and Korea, drawn from the reports of Jesuit missionaries
Du Halde, J.-B. 1674-1743.
HathiTrust Digital Library
London, J. Watts, 1739-1741. (Translator)
1739
Brookes, Richard, fl. 1750.
Public Domain. Google-digitized.
Book
English, translated from French
History
A view of the harbour & city of the Havana, taken from the hill near the road, between La Regla & Guanavacoa
Print showing various types of trees and shrubs, with a distant view of many ships in the harbor and of the city of Havana. Includes a numbered key showing: 1. The Cavanos; 2. The Morro; 3. Entrance of the Harbour; 4. The Punta; 5. Redoubts; 6. Guadaloupe; 7. The dock; 8. Gonzales Hill; 9. New powder magazine; 10. Isle de Puntas; 11. La Regla; 12. Landing place; a. The mountain aloe, 25 ft. high; <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">b. The plantain, 10 ft. high; c. The plantain fruit.</span></strong>
Elliot, William - Engraver
Durnford, Elias Walker - Artist
London : Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of St. Martins Lane in the Strand, Carrington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, and Henry Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill
c. 1764
Brandon Miraz
No known restrictions on publication.
Library of Congress
1 print : engraving and etching on paper ; plate mark 36.6 x 52.7 cm, on sheet 45.7 x 61.8 cm
English
Still Image
Title Page of "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel".
The title page to a book that gives an account of the cultures, geography, and natural resources of the regions of Malabar, Coromandel, and Ceylon.
The title page of the book "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel" depicting native peoples, animals, and resources. This book was a travel log, geography, and ethnography of Sri Lanka and the Southern Indian coastal regions published for Dutch audiences by the minister Philippus Baldaeus.
Engraving/publishing by Johannes Janssonius van Waasberge and Johannes van Someren.
The 1672 edition of the book "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel" by Philippus Baldaeus.
User "Sardar" on Wikimedia Commons.
Published in 1672.
Patrick Hood
Public domain due to expired copyright.
Digital photograph (594 × 950 pixels) in JPEG format.
Dutch.
Digital photograph of a printed page.
Early modern colonial scholarship by the dutch on Malabar, Coromandel, and Ceylon.
Detail of the Title Page of "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel".
A detail image of the title page to a book that gives an account of the cultures, geography, and natural resources of the regions of Malabr, Coromandel, and Ceylon.
The title page of the book "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel" depicting native peoples, animals, and resources.
Engraving/publishing by Johannes Janssonius van Waasberge and Johannes van Someren.
The 1672 edition of the book "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel" by Philippus Baldaeus.
User "Sardar" on Wikimedia Commons.
Published in 1672.
Patrick Hood
Public domain due to expired copyright.
Digital photograph (585 × 382 pixels) in JPEG format.
Dutch.
Digital photograph of a printed page.
Early modern colonial scholarship by the dutch on Malabar, Coromandel, and Ceylon.
The Natural & Moral History of the Indies
Indians of Mexico; Indians of South America; Natural history
This book includes "the notable things of the heavens, the elements, metals, plants, animals ; and the rites, ceremonies, laws, government, and wars of the Indians" (p. xvii) in the west Indies.
Fr. Jose de Acosta - author
Edward Grimston - translator (1604)
Clements R. Markham - editor, added notes & introduction (1880)
London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society
1880 (reprinted from previous 1604 edition)
Brandon Miraz
English
History