COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
67-322
Record number:
67-322-14
JCB call number:
D792 P412i
Image title:
Clapper Rail, No. 407.; Semipalmated Snipe, No. 380.
Creator 1:
Peter Mazell
Creator 1 dates:
fl. 1761-1797
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Robert Faulder]
Image date:
[1792]
Image function:
plate; vol. [3], following p. 196
Technique:
etching, engraving
Image dimension height:
16 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
23.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
A clapper rail and a semipalmated snipe stand in a landscape.
Source creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Source Title:
[Arctic zoology] Introduction to the Arctic zoology.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Robert Faulder, New Bond Street.
Source date:
M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
notes:
Text states that both the semipalmated snipe and the clapper rail (Rallus longirostris ) inhabit New York. Image placed horizontally on page. Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary. Peter Mazell was a British engraver of flowers and animals. Title for v. [2] and [3] reads: Arctic zoology. Imprint is the same as in v. [1].
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1967.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Rails (Birds)--North America
Subject headings:
Natural history--North America
Subject headings:
Ornithology--North America
Subject headings:
Snipes
Subject headings:
Zoology--North America
Clapper Rail, No. 407.; Semipalmated Snipe, No. 380.
