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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06944
Record number:
06944-11
JCB call number:
D796 S812n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[top] The Leguana or Iguana Lizard of Guiana. [bottom] The Alligator or Cayman of Surinam.
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Image date:
Decr. 1st. 1791
Image function:
plate 15; vol. 1, following p. 144
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
18.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
29 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
[top] Iguana and [bottom] caiman of Suriname.
Source creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Source Title:
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam ... Vol. I.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall
Source date:
1796
notes:
The iguana, Iguana iguana, is known as Legwana in Surinamese and the caiman, Caiman crocodilus, is known as kaiman in Surinamese.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Price, R. & S., ed. Stedman Narrative, p. 678-686
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Suriname

[top] The Leguana or Iguana Lizard of Guiana. [bottom] The Alligator or Cayman of Surinam.

     
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[top] The Leguana or Iguana Lizard of Guiana. [bottom] The Alligator or Cayman of Surinam.