Image of the cacao tree from Sir Hans Sloane's A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaicaa, Vol. 2, 1725, table 160.
Featured on PDR in the essay Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
Christine Jones explores the different ways the cacao tree has been depicted through history — from 16th-century codices to 18th-century botanicals — and what this changing iconography reveals about cacao’s journey into European culture.
Also appearing in the essay…
The Cacao Tree
Date
1725
From
A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica
