Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Le Dessous de la Porte Cochère d'un Personnage de la Cour. [bottom] Le Bando, (Proclamation Municipale).
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Accession number:
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07385
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Record number:
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07385-103
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JCB call number:
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E834 D288v / 3-SIZE
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Image title:
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[top] Le Dessous de la Porte Cochère d'un Personnage de la Cour. [bottom] Le Bando, (Proclamation Municipale).
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Creator 1:
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Jean Baptiste Debret
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Creator 1 dates:
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1768-1848
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Creator 1 role:
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delt.
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Creator 2:
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Thierry Frères, Srs. de Engelmann Cie.
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Creator 2 role:
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lith. de
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Creator 3:
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la Vtesse. de Portes
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Creator 3 role:
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delt.
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[Firmin Didot Frères]
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Image date:
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[1839]
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Image function:
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plate 14; vol. 3, following p. 146
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Technique:
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lithograph
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Image dimension height:
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29 cm. (both images)
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Image dimension width:
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23.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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53.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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34 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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French
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Description:
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[top] Interior of a porte-cochère in a wealthy Brazilian household. A gentleman and a tradesman are being shown into the main house. Two black male slaves braid straw and make a hat while they rest on their owner's carriage. [bottom] Richly dressed [military?] men on horseback form a procession. One man, whose hat is held by another, reads a proclamation.
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Source creator:
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Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848
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Source Title:
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Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil ... Tome troisième.
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Source place of publication:
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Paris
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Source publisher:
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Firmin Didot Frères, imprimeurs de l'Institut de France, libraires, rue Jacob, no. 56.
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Source date:
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M DCCC XXXIX. [1839]
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notes:
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[bottom] Text explains that in the event of an important court event such as a marriage, birth, or death, proclamations have to be read in public for three days before it takes place.The lithographs in this book were made from drawings made by Debret during his fifteen-year residence (1816-1831) in Brazil.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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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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Brazil
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Brazil--Social life and customs
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Subject headings:
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Dwellings--Brazil
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Subject headings:
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Slaves--Brazil
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Subject headings:
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Proclamations--Brazil
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