MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record 
Accession number:
92-57
Record number:
92-57-51
JCB call number:
D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Various owls]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
Harrison & Co.
Image date:
1786
Image function:
plate LXXII [72]; vol. 2
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
33 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19.1 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
36.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Various owls including: 1) the brown, 2) the Athens, 3) the Ceylonese, 4) the great white, 5) the little, 6) the little owl-hawk, 7) the long-eared, and 8) the short-eared. 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 great white owl may be bubo scandiacus, the snowy owl, whose range is the entire northern part of the northern hemisphere. The little owl-hawk may be the northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--North America
Subject headings:
Birds--Arctic regions
Subject headings:
Birds--North America
Subject headings:
Owls
Subject headings:
Natural history--Arctic regions

[Various owls]