COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
92-57
Record number:
92-57-59
JCB call number:
D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Pelicans, penguins, and petrels]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
Harrison & Co.
Image date:
1786
Image function:
plate LXXIII [73]; vol. 2
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
32.9 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
36.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Various pelicans, penguins, and petrels including: 1) the African pelican, 2) the American pelican, 3) the black footed penguin, 4) the northern penguin, 5) the spotted petrel, and 6) the manks petrel. 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 American pelican may be either the brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, which inhabits much of North America and the Caribbean (as suggested in the text) or the American white pelican, P. erythrorhynchos, which is an inland bird that winters on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. The northern penguin is probably the great auk, Pinguinus impennis, a bird native to the North Atlantic from Canada to northern Europe. It was hunted to extinction, the last bird having been seen in 1852.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--North America
Subject headings:
Great auk
Subject headings:
Pelicans
Subject headings:
Natural history--Caribbean area
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