Tobacco vellum charts the botany and uses of this plant across the Ibero-American world. Since the 16th century, these folios preserve the precision of their drawings and the curiosity surrounding a transformative species. They reveal the science and culture of a pivotal encounter.
Tobacco iconography, captured on delicate vellum, traces a visual history from the 17th to 19th centuries. Originating in Ibero-America, these representations document the plant, its cultivation, and the diverse consumption methods that transformed societies. They reveal the tension between the exoticism of a colonial product
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