MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06944
Record number:
06944-32
JCB call number:
D796 S812n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[top] The Spur winged Water hen of Guiana. [bottom] The Red Curlew of Surinam.
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Image date:
Decr. 2d. 1793
Image function:
plate 36; vol. 1, following p. 340
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
18 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
29 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
[top] A wattled jacana and [bottom] a scarlet ibis.
Source creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Source Title:
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam ... Vol. I.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall
Source date:
1796
notes:
The wattled jacana, Jacana jacana, is known in Surinamese as kempanki. The red Curlew or scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber, known in Surinamese as kori kori or flamingo.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Price, R. & S., ed. Stedman Narrative, p. 678-686
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Suriname

[top] The Spur winged Water hen of Guiana. [bottom] The Red Curlew of Surinam.

     
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[top] The Spur winged Water hen of Guiana. [bottom] The Red Curlew of Surinam.