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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02174
Record number:
02174-1
JCB call number:
J669 F819e
Image title:
[Crocodile]
Place image published:
[Nuremberg]
Image publisher:
[Christoph Gerhard, for widow and heirs of Paul Fürst]
Image date:
[1669]
Image function:
plate; pt. 1, following p. 130
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
8.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Two native Americans shove a pole into the mouth of a crocodile or alligator.
Source creator:
Francisci, Erasmus, 1627-1694
Source Title:
Erasmi Francisci Guineischer und americanischer Blumen-Pusch
Source place of publication:
Nürnberg [Nuremberg]
Source publisher:
In Verlegung Paul Fürstens, Kunst- und Buchh. seel: Wittib und Erben. Gedruckt daselbst bey Christoph Gerhard
Source date:
M.DC.LXIX [1669]
notes:
The text describes the animal as a crocodile that lives in Florida. A similar image depicting the same activity can be found in DeBry, Pt. 2, plate 26. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References exhibitions:
Landis, D.C. Literature of the Encounter, no. 58, fig. VI.4
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America
Subject headings:
Natural history--Florida
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