MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01871
Record number:
01871-5
JCB call number:
F648 P678h / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[top] [Pufferfish] [middle] [Piquitinga Barsiliensibus] and [bottom] [Araguagua Brasiliensibus]
Place image published:
[Leiden & Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Franciscum Hackium & Lud. Elzevirium]
Image date:
[1648]
Image function:
illustration; part II, p. 159
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
4.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
40.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
25 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
[top] Porcupine fish or pufferfish . [middle] Lile piquitinga or Atlantic piquitingua, a member of the herring family. [bottom] Sawfish, also known as carpenter sharks, a member of the ray family.
Source creator:
Piso, Willem, 1611-1678
Source Title:
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Source place of publication:
Lugdun. Batavorum & Amstelodami [Leiden & Amsterdam]
Source publisher:
Franciscum Hackium & Lud. Elzevirium
Source date:
1648
notes:
Image title from text.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1854.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary:
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Brazil
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[top] [Pufferfish] [middle] [Piquitinga Barsiliensibus] and [bottom] [Araguagua Brasiliens...

[top] [Pufferfish] [middle] [Piquitinga Barsiliensibus] and [bottom] [Araguagua Brasiliensibus]