Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
03093
Record number:
03093-11
JCB call number:
E714 F426j / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Monsters]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre Giffart]
Image date:
[1714]
Image function:
plate; vol. 1, following p. 484
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
22.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
16.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
25.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Babies born with birth defects, one with fingers growing from arm sockets and an abnormally large head with a flap of skin coming down from his forehead. The other baby is a conjoined parapagus twin with two heads, two arms, but one body and two legs.
Source creator:
Feuillée, Louis, 1660-1732
Source Title:
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques, et botaniques ... Tome premier
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre Giffart, Libraire, Graveur du Roy, & de l'Académie Royale de Peinture & de Sculpture
Source date:
M. DCC. XIV. [1714]
notes:
The first baby is described in text as having been born to native American parents; the conjoined twins were born in Lima, Peru. Engraving may be by Pierre-Franço is Giffart (1647-1723). Father Louis Feuillée was a French botanist and member of the Académie Royal des Sciences, who served as scientist and botanist on several French expeditions.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples; Portraits
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject headings:
Abnormalities, Human
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Image ID:
4580002
Resolution Size:
7
Format:
SID
Media Type:
Image
File Name:
04587002.sid
Width:
4718
Height:
6670

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