Pepper Plant, Piment ou Poivre d'Inde

Title

Pepper Plant, Piment ou Poivre d'Inde

Subject

Pepper Plant

Description

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.

Creator

Anonymous

Source

The Mariners' Museum
"The Great Exchange: Plants"

Publisher

Mariners' Museum

Date

"The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies" published 1794

Contributor

Delaney Coveno

Rights

"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.

Relation

Mariners' Museum Library

Format

The image was originally an ink drawing on paper, appearing in a book. Published here as a digital image with 371x364 pixels.

Language

French (Book is in English)

Type

Ink illustration in 18th century book

Identifier

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.

Coverage

18th century British colonial trade and agriculture in the West Indies

Original Format

paper illustration in book

Physical Dimensions

[no text]

Files

Piment ou poivre d'Inde

Citation

Anonymous, “Pepper Plant, Piment ou Poivre d'Inde,” Food origins, accessed April 24, 2024, https://tenochtitlan.omeka.net/items/show/42.