Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Marchand de fleurs, a la porte d'une église. [bottom] Ex-voto de marins échappés d'un naufrage.
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Accession number:
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07385
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Record number:
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07385-17
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JCB call number:
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E834 D288v / 3-SIZE
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Image title:
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[top] Marchand de fleurs, a la porte d'une église. [bottom] Ex-voto de marins échappés d'un naufrage.
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Creator 1:
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Jean Baptiste Debret
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Creator 1 dates:
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1768-1848
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Creator 1 role:
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dt.
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Creator 2:
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V[icomt]esse. de Portes
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Creator 2 role:
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dt.
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Creator 3:
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Thierry Frères Succrs. de Engelmann & Cie.
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Creator 3 role:
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Lith de.
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[Firmin Didot Frères]
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Image date:
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[1835]
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Image function:
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plate 6; vol. 3, following p. 124
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Technique:
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lithograph
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Image dimension height:
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26.6 cm. (both images)
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Image dimension width:
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24.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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53.7 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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34.5 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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French
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Description:
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[top]A flower seller, a black man [slave] who also holds a plate full of cut coconut, presents flowers carefully placed on a banana trunk to an upper-class woman who is leaving mass with her servants [slaves] and her child. [bottom] Barefoot sailors bring a sail into a church. They carry their shoes and their hats.
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Source creator:
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Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848
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Source Title:
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Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil ... Tome troisième
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Source place of publication:
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Paris
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Source publisher:
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Firmin Didot Frères, imprimeurs de l'Institut de France
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Source date:
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M DCCC XXXV [1835]
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notes:
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Text describes [top] the language of flowers in Brazil. A gentleman would send a carnation to a woman to show his love, thus making the selling of flowers a lucrative business. The women are dressed in their best for church. [bottom] Sailors would bring sails into the church of Our Lady of Navigators to have them blessed.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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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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Brazil
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Brazil--Description and travel
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