COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
29836
Record number:
29836-8
JCB call number:
DC R888a
Image title:
The Hooded Serpent.
Place image published:
[Boston]
Image publisher:
[Isaiah Thomas]
Image date:
[1774]
Image function:
plate
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
11 cm.
Page dimension height:
22.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
A cobra or hooded snake.
Source Title:
The royal American magazine, or Universal repository of instruction and amusement. For May, 1774
Source place of publication:
Boston
Source publisher:
Printed by and for I. Thomas, near the Market ...
Source date:
1774
notes:
Attributed to Paul Revere by Clarence Brigham. The print was copied from a plate in the Royal Magazine, Apr. 1766, vol. 14, p. 176. Published first by Isaiah Thomas and then Joseph Greenleaf in Boston, this magazine was produced from January 1774 until April 1775 when the war put an end to publication.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings, p. 86-87
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1946.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
The Hooded Serpent.
