Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Bois dentelle]
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Accession number:
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08453
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Record number:
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08453-2
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JCB call number:
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E776 N653e (copy 1)
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Image title:
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[Bois dentelle]
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Creator 1:
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Moithey L'ainé
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Creator 1 role:
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sculp.
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Place image published:
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[Paris]
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Image publisher:
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[Gobreau]
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Image date:
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[1776]
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Image function:
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fold-out plate 1; following p. 172
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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15.4 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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15.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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19.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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24.7 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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Description:
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Branch of a tree called bois dentelle. Includes numbered details of gauze (made from the bark of the tree?), leaves, calix, fruit, and seeds. Numbered parts are identified in text.
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Source creator:
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Nicolson, pere
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Source Title:
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Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'isle de Saint-Domingue, avec des figures en taille-douce.
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Source place of publication:
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A Paris
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Source publisher:
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Chez Gobreau, libraire, Quai des Augustins, à Saint Jean-Baptiste.
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Source date:
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M.DCC.LXXVI [1776]
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notes:
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This plant may be Lagetta lintearia. Text notes uses to which the Black people of Haiti put the gauze made from its bark. Image title from text.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Subject matter:
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Saint Domingue
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References:
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http://elpinto.free.fr/fr/haiticomplet.php3 (Feb. 2008)
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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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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Botany--Haiti
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Haiti
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