Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Various birds, seals, and a scad fish]
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Accession number:
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92-57
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Record number:
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92-57-61
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JCB call number:
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D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Various birds, seals, and a scad fish]
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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Harrison & Co.
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Image date:
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1786
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Image function:
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plate LXXXV [85]; vol. 2
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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33.2 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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19 cm. (platemark)
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Page dimension height:
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36.3 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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22 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Various birds, a fish, and seals including: 1) the red scollop-toed sand-piper, 2) the scad fish, 3) the seal, 4) the harp seal, 5) the secretary bird, and 6) the shomburger [schomburger] bird. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
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Source creator:
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Martyn, William Frederic
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Source Title:
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A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the second
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18, Paternoster Row
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Source date:
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MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
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notes:
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The harp seal, Phoca groenlandica, breeds around Greenland and Newfoundland. Because of value of the white fur of its young, it is endangered. The schomburger bird (so called by Edwards) may be Icterus pectoralis, the spot-breasted oriole, but its range is the Pacific side of Central America rather than the West Indies as stated in the text. Cuvier (Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles) says it is from Mexico.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/harp-seal.html; http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Spot-breasted_Oriole_dtl.html (Sept. 2008)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1992.
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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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Arctic
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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geographic area:
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North America
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Seals (Animals)
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Subject headings:
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Orioles
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Subject headings:
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Natural history
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