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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
64-27
Record number:
64-27-41
JCB call number:
D756 B883c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Various mollusks]
Creator 1:
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Creator 1 dates:
1708-1770
Creator 1 role:
delin.
Creator 2:
R. Hancock
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[T. Osborne and J. Shipton]
Image date:
1755
Image function:
plate 40; following p. 490
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
31.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
20.9 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
The mollusk shells are identified as Cochlea (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4), Licina (Figs. 5, 7, 8), Stola (Fig. 9), Pecten (Fig. 10), and Pholas (Fig. 11). Figure A is a type of fungus, Acetabulum.
Source creator:
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790
Source Title:
The civil and natural history of Jamaica. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn.
Source date:
MDCCLVI [1756]
notes:
Image title taken from pages 401, 402, 411, 412 and 417. The Licina may be land mollusks. It has not been possible to identify Figure 6.Browne was an Irish medical doctor who settled in Jamaica in 1746. There he collected 1200 species of plants, 400 more than Sloane. He retired to Ireland in 1771.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1963; former collections of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwiliam; Charles William de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam; Mary, Marchioness of Rockingham.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Mollusks
Subject headings:
Natural history--Jamaica

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