Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Allegorical image of America]
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Accession number:
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35262
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Record number:
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35262-1
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JCB call number:
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E775 A895h / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Allegorical image of America]
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Creator 1:
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Fassier
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Creator 1 role:
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Inv.
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Creator 2:
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Palas
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Creator 2 role:
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Sculp.
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Place image published:
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[Paris?]
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Image publisher:
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[Pierre-François Didot jeune]
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Image date:
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[1775]
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Image function:
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frontispiece; vol. 1
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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19.2 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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15.2 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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25.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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19.8 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Native American woman wearing feathered headdress and ornaments representing America rests her arm on a portrait of Fusée Aublet. Cultural artifacts include a ceremonial club, bow and arrows, and spear. Botanical elements include varieties of palm trees and cacti. Also includes examples of the fruit of these plants.
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Source creator:
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Aublet, Fusée, 1720-1778
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Source Title:
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Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise ... Tome premier
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Source place of publication:
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Londres [i.e., Paris?]
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Source publisher:
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Chez Pierre-François Didot jeune, Libraire de la Faculté de Médecine, Quai des Augustins
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Source date:
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M. DCC. LXXV. [1775]
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notes:
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Jean Baptiste Christian (or Christophe) Fusée Aublet's book is considered one of the great botanical works of the 18th century. He described over 400 new species and 208 genera using Linnaeus' recently introduced binomial system of naming living organisms. Fusée Aublet is recognized as one of the founders of ethnobotany.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Commentary:
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geographic area:
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Guianas
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--French Guyana
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