M0006144: Brazilans smoking and examining the tobacco plant called "Petu", from Thevet: Cosmographie Universelle (1575)

Date:
09 March 1939
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WT/D/1/20/1/51/43
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M0006144: Brazilans smoking and examining the tobacco plant called "Petu", from Thevet: <i>Cosmographie Universelle</i> (1575). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2020: Brazilans Indians smoking and examining the tobacco plant.

Description

Woodcut illustration from Thevet, André: La Cosmographie universelle ... illustre?e de diverses figures, etc., Paris 1575. This image comes from the copy held by the British Library (system number: 003611432). Related images: M0006145, M0006146.

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09 March 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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