Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Fish, cocoons, rock formation]
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Accession number:
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9491
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Record number:
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09491-1
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JCB call number:
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E772 C467v / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Fish, cocoons, rock formation]
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Creator 1:
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Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy
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Creator 1 dates:
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1732-1789
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Creator 1 role:
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del.
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Creator 2:
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El[izabe]th. Haussard
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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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[Charles-Antoine Jombert]
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Image date:
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[1772]
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Image function:
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plate 1; following p. 60
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Technique:
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etching
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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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15.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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26 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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19.3 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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A fish, two views of a butterfly's cocoon, and a faceted rock formation. Items are numbered and lettered for explanation in the text.
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Source creator:
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Chappe d'Auteroche, abbé, 1728-1769
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Source Title:
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[Voyage en Californie pour l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le disque du soleil] Voyage en Californie ...
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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 Charles-Antoine Jombert, Libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie & le Génie, rue Dauphine, à l'Image Notre-Dame.
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Source date:
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M. DCC. LXXII. [1772]
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notes:
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Text describes the cocoon as belonging to the butterfly, Mariposa plateada, the fish as 1 to 1.5 inches long, and the rocks as protruding three feet from the ground, faceted, and black. The rock is found in Pachuca (Hidalgo province, Mexico) near the silver mines discovered in 1534.Chappe's journal concludes on p. 39, because shortly after his arrival at the mission of San Joseph, he died of an epidemic disease. His companions then simply fulfilled their mission of taking observations of the transit of Venus. Items depicted are described in a letter from Don Joseph Antoine de Alzate y Ramyrez to the Académie Royale des Sciences and sent to the Académie with Chappe's papers. Alzate was a priest born in Mexico who studied astronomy, physics, metallurgy, and antiquities. He was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences. Some time after the papers arrived, a trunk containing these specimens also arrived at the Académie. Alzate gathered his specimens from the area around Mexico City.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1882.
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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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Spanish 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--Mexico
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