Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Various monkeys]

Accession number: 
92-57
Record number: 
92-57-49
JCB call number: 
D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
[Various monkeys]
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
Harrison & Co.
Image date: 
1786
Image function: 
plate LXX [70]; vol. 2
Technique: 
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height: 
33.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
19.4 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
36.3 cm.
Page dimension width: 
22 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Various monkeys including: 1) the full-bottomed, 2) the long-nosed, 3) the purple-faced, 4) the silky, and 5) the tawny. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator: 
Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title: 
A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the second
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18, Paternoster Row
Source date: 
MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes: 
The silky monkey is perhaps either Leontopithecus rosalia, the golden lion tamarin, or L. chrysomelas, the golden-headed lion tamarin. Text states that this monkey is from Guiana.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
References: 
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/golden-headed_lion_tamarin (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Guianas
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject headings: 
Tamarins
Subject headings: 
New World monkeys
Subject headings: 
Natural history--Guiana