Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18857

    Earthenware

    Date
    1699
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 213mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Six figures depicting various earthen pots used when making couscous in Morocco, as observed and described by Jezreel Jones.

    Illustration to ‘III. An account of the Moorish way of dressing their meat (with other remarks) in West Barbary, from Cape Spartel to Cape de Geer’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 254 (July 1699).

    Jezreel Jones (d. 1731), British traveller and diplomatist, was elected Clerk of the Royal Society in 1698.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Morocco
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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