MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01631
Record number:
01631-76
JCB call number:
F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Plants and animals of the Caribbean islands]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jacob Meurs]
Image date:
[1671]
Image function:
illustration; p. 187
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
31.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
19.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Plants and animals of the Caribbean islands including papaya trees, spoonbills, and iguanas [?]. Also includes dwellings within a palisade. Includes a man wearing an ox hide shooting at the birds with a gun or musket.
Source creator:
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source Title:
De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
Source place of publication:
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
Source date:
1671
notes:
The roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja or Ajaia ajaja, (here called flammans or a flamigo) are native to South America and the Caribbean islands. The papaya, Carica papaya, is native to Central and South America. The man is camouflaged for hunting.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1847.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Caribbean area

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