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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03374
Record number:
03374-17
JCB call number:
E558 T416sa
Image title:
[Fish found in the Ganabara River]
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Christophle Plantin]
Image date:
[1558]
Image function:
plate; verso leaf 47
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
4.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
10 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Fish found in the Guanabara River [present-day Rio de Janeiro].
Source creator:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Source Title:
[Les singularitez de la France Antarctique] Les singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique
Source place of publication:
A Anvers [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
De l'imprimerie de Christophle Plantin a la Licorne d'or
Source date:
1558
notes:
Text describes a freshwater fish, perhaps a Loricaria parnahyba or armored catfish, armored like an armadillo found in the Rio Janeiro. Cf. 0656-6. Thevet, a Franciscan monk, traveled to Brazil with Nicolas Durand, chevalier de Villegagnon, stayed ten weeks, and wrote his book from his own observations and those of others.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Fishes
Subject headings:
Natural history--Brazil

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