Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Fish and sea animals]
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Accession number:
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09230
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Record number:
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09230-8
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JCB call number:
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E718 F896r
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Image title:
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[Fish and sea animals]
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[R. & G. Wetstein]
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Image date:
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[1718]
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Image function:
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plate 17; following p. 108
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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17 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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12.4 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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19.8 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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15.5 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Dutch
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Description:
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Various fish, sea horse, and a crustacean or lobster. Includes a barracuda [?], a swordfish seen from the bottom and from the side, a seahorse, a pejegallo or elephant fish.
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Source creator:
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Frézier, Amédée François, 1682-1773
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Source Title:
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[Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou, et du Brésil, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713, & 1714. Dutch] Reis-Beschryving door de Zuid-Zee langs de Kusten van Chili, Peru en Brazil
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Source place of publication:
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Te Amsterdam
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Source publisher:
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By R. en G. Wetstein
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Source date:
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1718
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notes:
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Elephantfish or Callorhinchus callorynchus.This image derived from Frézier, Relation du voyage de la mer du sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou, Paris, 1716.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1870.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Fishes
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