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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03581
Record number:
03581-003
JCB call number:
J668 F819o /1-SIZE
Image title:
[Hummingbirds, miracle in Chile, sun and other illustrations,]
Place image published:
Nuremberg
Image publisher:
[in Verlegung Johann Andreae Endters, und Wolfgang dess jüngern sel. Erben]
Image date:
1668
Image function:
plate 3, following p. 42
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
25.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
32 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
[top] Hummingbirds, here called guainumbi. Below the hummingbirds is an image of the miraculous effigy the Virgin Mary and child that was said to have appeared in a cave in Chile.
Source creator:
Francisci, Erasmus, 1627-1694
Source Title:
Erasmi Francisci Ost-und West-indischer wie auch sinesischer Lust-und Stats-Garten ...
Source place of publication:
Nuremberg
Source publisher:
in Verlegung Johann Andreæ Endters, und Wolfgang dess jüngern sel. Erben
Source date:
MDCLXVIII. [1668]
notes:
Hummingbirds are found only in the New World and are of the family Trochilidae. For the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary in Chile, see also Alonso de Ovalle, Historica relacion del reyno de Chile, Rome, 1649 (# 0875-20).
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
https://archive.org… (Sept. 2015)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1866.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history
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