Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Title page]
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Accession number:
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08341
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Record number:
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08341-1
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JCB call number:
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E783 C512a
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Image title:
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[Title page]
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Creator 1:
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Giraud le J[eun]e.
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Creator 1 role:
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sculp.
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Creator 2:
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Binet
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Creator 2 role:
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inv.
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Place image published:
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A Amsterdam
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Image publisher:
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Chez J. A. Crajenschot
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Image date:
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1783
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Image function:
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title page; vol. 1
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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16.9 cm. (including text)
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Image dimension width:
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9.8 cm. (including text)
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Page dimension height:
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21.6 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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12.9 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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Inscription:
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u.l.: c; u.r.: Rich p. 481; l.r.: 1782
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Languages:
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French, English
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Description:
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Four female allegorical figures on a shore. America, represented by a native American woman with feathered headdress and skirt, holds a (Phrygian?) cap on a pole and stands behind the figure of a seated France. France holds a shield with fleurs de lis on it in one hand and reaches out to the figure representing Britain and to the other female figure. Britain holds a shield with the arms of Britain on it; the other woman holds a shield with arrows on it. Includes bow and quiver of arrows, ship, and palm tree.
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Source creator:
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Chavannes de la Giraudière, L. de
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Source Title:
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L'Amérique délivrée, esquisse d'un poëme sur l'indépendence de l'Amérique.
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Source place of publication:
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A Amsterdam
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Source publisher:
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Chez J. A. Crajenschot
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Source date:
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MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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notes:
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Chavannes de la Giraudière was a poor Lyonnais noble who was disinherited because he married beneath him. He was forced to leave France and lived in Brussels, London, Antwerp, and Amsterdam where he met John Adams, to whom this epic poem is dedicated. Much of the poem deals with events in the Netherlands. Chavannes hoped to emigrate to America, but never did.Engraver may be Louis Binet (1744-ca. 1800).
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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References:
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http://www.jstor.org/view/00435597/di957265/95p0470f/5?frame=noframe&userID=80942b12@brown.edu/01cce440610050de2cc&dpi=3&config=jstor (Aug. 2007)
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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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North America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Emblems--America
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