Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Le Cotinga pacapaca, mâle.

Accession number: 
88-19
Record number: 
88-19-1
JCB call number: 
E801 L655h / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
Le Cotinga pacapaca, mâle.
Creator 1: 
Jacques Barraband
Creator 1 dates: 
1767-1809
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
De l'Imprimerie de Langlois
Image date: 
[1801]
Image function: 
vol. 1, plate 31
Technique: 
engraving, color added à la poupée
Image dimension height: 
29.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
23.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
32.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
24.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
French
Description: 
A male pompadour cotinga.
Source creator: 
Le Vaillant, François, 1753-1824
Source Title: 
Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et des Indes ... Tome premier
Source place of publication: 
Paris
Source publisher: 
chez J.E. Gabriel Dufour, libraire, rue de Tournon, no. 1126. Et, à Amsterdam, chez le même libraire. De l'imprimerie de Didot jeune, quai des Augustins, no. 22
Source date: 
An IX [1801]
notes: 
This work, of which only one volume was published, discusses birds, the cotingas, of northern South America, specifically of the Guianas. Scientific name: Xipholena punicea. Been identifies the artist of this image as Jacques Barraband.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
References: 
http://www.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=4677 (Nov. 2003)
References exhibitions: 
Been, A. Animals & Authors, Fig. VI: 3
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1987.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
Guianas
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject headings: 
Natural history--South America