Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Pichou. [bottom] Boeuf Sauvage.
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Accession number:
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07049
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Record number:
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07049-13
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JCB call number:
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E758 L591h
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Image title:
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[top] Pichou. [bottom] Boeuf Sauvage.
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert]
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Image date:
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[1758]
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Image function:
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plate; vol. 2, following p. 66
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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12.7 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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7.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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16.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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10 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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French
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Description:
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[top] Spotted bobcat or lynx and [bottom] wild cattle or buffalo.
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Source creator:
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Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775
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Source Title:
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Histoire de Louisiane ... Tome second
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Source place of publication:
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A Paris
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Source publisher:
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Chez de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert
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Source date:
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1758
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notes:
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Pichou is the Canadian name for the bobcat, Lynx rufus. Antoine-Simon le Page du Pratz was one of 800 Frenchmen who went to Louisiana under the entrepreneurial colonization scheme organized by John Law and the Company of the West (Mississippi Company). He
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/archives/miamis15/M64_38a.html; http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiatheme1d4.html (Sept. 2005)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1870.
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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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geographic area:
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North America
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Louisiana
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