MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record 
Accession number:
05686
Record number:
05686-3
JCB call number:
F809 D446
Image title:
Ajoupas du Lagon peinier, appellé le Cirque des Bambous.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Dufart, père]
Image date:
[1809]
Image function:
frontispiece; vol. 2
Technique:
stipple engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
9.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
11.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of bamboo huts or dwellings on the island of Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti. Also includes an alligator.
Source creator:
Descourtilz, M. E. (Michel Etienne), b. 1775
Source Title:
Voyages d'un naturaliste, et ses observations ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
Paris
Source publisher:
Dufart, père, libraire-éditeur
Source date:
1809
notes:
Text discusses a lagoon in Saint-Domingue.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.Image placed horizontally on page.
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:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Haiti--Description and travel

Ajoupas du Lagon peinier, appellé le Cirque des Bambous.