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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04426
Record number:
04426-004
JCB call number:
D712 C772
Image title:
[Fish]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[ printed by H. M. for B. Lintot and R. Gosling in Fleet-Street, A. Bettesworth on London-Bridge, and W. Innys in St. Paul's Church-Yard]
Image date:
[1712]
Image function:
plate, vol. 1, following p. 26
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
19 cm.
Page dimension width:
11.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Fish. No. 1 A shark drawn on his back. No. 2 Pilot fish. No. 3 A pilot fish when it is out of the water. No. 4 a sucking fish from the side. No. 5 A sucking fish from the top.
Source creator:
Cooke, Edward, Captain
Source Title:
A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711. Containing a journal of all memorable transactions ... With a new map and description of the mighty River of the Amazons. Wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
printed by H. M. for B. Lintot and R. Gosling in Fleet-Street, A. Bettesworth on London-Bridge, and W. Innys in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Source date:
1712
notes:
The fish are identified in the text following the plate. According to the text the pilot fish (scientific name: Naucrates ductor) appears to be like a mackerel. No. 2 shows it in water and no. 3 shows it out of water. The sucking fish or ramora are in the family Echeneidae. William Dampier's third circumnavigation of the world included Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers who wrote about their voyage. This voyage included the rescue of Alexander Selkirk who had been left on Juan Fernandez Island on Dampier's previous circumnavigation in 1704. William Funnell, historian of the expedition, also wrote a book describing the voyage.
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