COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05686
Record number:
05686-10
JCB call number:
F809 D446
Image title:
Poissons de Riviere. 1. Kyphose Haut-Dos. 2. Gobiésoce Testar 3. Mulet de l'Artibonite. 4. Ecrevisse de l'Ester 5. Ecrevisse de l'Artibonite.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Dufart, père]
Image date:
[1809]
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 312
Technique:
stipple engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
14.7cm.
Image dimension width:
9.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
11.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Several fishes: a kyphose, a gobiesoce testar, a mullet from the Artibonite river or region of Haiti, a crayfish from the area of Ester (near present-day Port-au-Prince), and a crayfish from the Artibonite river or region.
Source creator:
Descourtilz, M. E. (Michel Etienne), b. 1775
Source Title:
Voyages d'un naturaliste, et ses observations ... Tome premier
Source place of publication:
Paris
Source publisher:
Dufart, père, libraire-éditeur
Source date:
1809
notes:
The Kyphose may be a kind of sea chub (kyphosidae); text notes the typically deformed back of the fish. The author discusses the taste and preferred cooking and preserving method for each fish. Michel Etienne Descourtilz, a French naturalist, lived in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) during much of the revolt that led to the independence of Haiti.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Fishes
Subject headings:
Crayfish--Haiti
Subject headings:
Natural history--Haiti
Poissons de Riviere. 1. Kyphose Haut-Dos. 2. Gobiésoce Testar 3. Mulet de l'Artibonite. 4....
