Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Des animavx de l'air. Chapitre I. Des Oyseaux]

Accession number: 
01897
Record number: 
01897-4
JCB call number: 
E667 D975h (copy 1)
Image title: 
[Des animavx de l'air. Chapitre I. Des Oyseaux]
Creator 1: 
le Clerc
Creator 1 role: 
F[ecit]
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[Thomas Iolly]
Image date: 
[1667]
Image function: 
fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 246
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
20.1 cm.
Image dimension width: 
34.5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
23.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
35.6 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
French
Description: 
Men hunt for turtles. Botanical details include turtle laying eggs, European man overturning a turtle, men hunting turtles with spear from boat, and illustrations of a variety of birds-- flamingos, frigate birds, herons, pelicans, parakeets, crow, etc. Also includes a crab, flying fish, and shells. Items in the image are lettered for identification in a key below.
Source creator: 
Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, 1610-1687
Source Title: 
Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François ... Tome II
Source place of publication: 
Paris
Source publisher: 
Chez Thomas Iolly, au palais, en la Salle des Merciers, à la Palme, & aux Armes d'Hollande
Source date: 
M. DC. LXVII. [1667]
notes: 
Engraver is perhaps Sebastien Le Clerc (1637-1714), engraver and professor of geometry and perspective at the French Royal Academy. Image title taken from chapter title.
Time Period: 
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1854.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject headings: 
Natural history--West Indies
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