Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: The Thunder Storm.
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Accession number:
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29836
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Record number:
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29836-2
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JCB call number:
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DC R888a
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Image title:
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The Thunder Storm.
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Creator 1:
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Paul Revere
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Creator 1 dates:
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1734-1818
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Creator 1 role:
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Sculp
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Place image published:
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[Boston]
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Image publisher:
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[Joseph Greenleaf]
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Image date:
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[1774]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 26
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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14.4 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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9 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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19.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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12.5 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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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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A woman covers a sleeping man with a cloth during a thunderstorm.
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Source Title:
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The royal American magazine, or Universal repository of instruction and amusement. Volume I. For the year 1774
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Source place of publication:
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Boston
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Source publisher:
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Printed at Greenleaf's Printing-Office in Union-Street, near the Market
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Source date:
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1774
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notes:
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Revere copied this print from a plate with the same title from Town and Country Magazine, London, September, 1773, vol. 5, p. 473. 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.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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Brigham, C.S. Paul Revere's engravings, p. 81
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1946.
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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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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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