Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Animals of Peru]

Accession number: 
34066
Record number: 
34066-3
JCB call number: 
B748 U41r vol. 3/1-SIZE (copy 1)
Image title: 
[Animals of Peru]
Creator 1: 
Moreno
Creator 1 role: 
Sculp
Place image published: 
[Madrid]
Image publisher: 
[Antonio Marin]
Image date: 
[1748]
Image function: 
illustration; p. [249]
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
9.9 cm.
Image dimension width: 
16.7 cm.
Page dimension height: 
27.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
19.1 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
Various animals of South America. Pelican, seals, and a bull are shown. A Chilean is shown in his poncho and another native American is lassoing the bull. Also included are plants which are being harvested and a spear. Items in the image are lettered for identification in key below.
Source creator: 
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
Source Title: 
Relacion historica del viage a la American meridional ... Segunda parte, Tomo tercero
Source place of publication: 
En Madrid
Source publisher: 
Por Antonio Marin
Source date: 
M.DCC.XLVIII [1748]
notes: 
This image is from an account of the expedition sent by the Académie Royale des Sciences in 1735 to measure a degree of the meridian at the equator.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Scientific expeditions--South America