Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Mount Capiro with tamandua and battle between mulatto and tiger]

Accession number: 
34066
Record number: 
34066-12
JCB call number: 
B748 U41r / 1-SIZE (copy 1)
Image title: 
[Mount Capiro with tamandua and battle between mulatto and tiger]
Creator 1: 
Moreno
Creator 1 role: 
sculp.
Place image published: 
[Madrid]
Image publisher: 
[Antonio Marin]
Image date: 
[1748]
Image function: 
illustration; vol. 1, pt. 1, p. [114]
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
10.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
17.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
27.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
18.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
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.
Source creator: 
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
Source Title: 
Relacion historica del viage a la America meridional ... Primera parte, Tomo primero.
Source place of publication: 
En Madrid
Source publisher: 
Por Antonio Marin
Source date: 
M.DCC.XLVIII [1748]
notes: 
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
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject headings: 
Tamandua--Panama
Subject headings: 
Panama--Description and travel