MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07049
Record number:
07049-15
JCB call number:
E758 L591h
Image title:
[top] Ecureuil Volant. [middle] Spatule. [bottom] Aigrette.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert]
Image date:
[1758]
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 98
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
10 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
[top] Flying squirrel, [middle] spoonbill, and [bottom] egret.
Source creator:
Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775
Source Title:
Histoire de Louisiane ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert
Source date:
1758
notes:
The flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus), the roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), and the egret. 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
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
http://www.nature.c… http://www.mbr-pwrc… http://internationa… (Sept. 2005)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Louisiana

[top] Ecureuil Volant. [middle] Spatule. [bottom] Aigrette.

     
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[top] Ecureuil Volant. [middle] Spatule. [bottom] Aigrette.