Accession number:
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34066
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Record number:
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34066-12
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JCB call number:
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B748 U41r / 1-SIZE (copy 1)
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Image title:
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[Mount Capiro with tamandua and battle between mulatto and tiger]
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Creator 1:
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Moreno
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Creator 1 role:
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sculp.
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Place image published:
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[Madrid]
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Image publisher:
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[Antonio Marin]
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Image date:
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[1748]
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Image function:
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illustration; vol. 1, pt. 1, p. [114]
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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10.4 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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17.5 cm. (platemark)
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Page dimension height:
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27.6 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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18.5 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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Spanish
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Description:
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Landscape with view of Mount Capiro [Capira?] in present-day Panama. In the foreground are a tamandua and a mulatto fighting with a so-called tiger. Items are lettered for identification in key at bottom of image.
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Source creator:
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Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
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Source Title:
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Relacion historica del viage a la America meridional ... Primera parte, Tomo primero.
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Source place of publication:
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En Madrid
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Source publisher:
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Por Antonio Marin
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Source date:
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M.DCC.XLVIII [1748]
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notes:
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An account of the expedition sent by the French Académie Royale des Sciences in 1735 to measure a degree of the meridian at the equator. The participants included the Frenchmen, La Condamine, Godin, and Bouguer, and the Spaniards, Ulloa and Juan y Santaci
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1871.
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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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Tamandua--Panama
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Subject headings:
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Panama--Description and travel
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