MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03374
Record number:
03374-23
JCB call number:
E558 T416sa
Image title:
[Succarath or su]
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Christophle Plantin]
Image date:
[1558]
Image function:
illustration; verso leaf 106
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
5 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
10 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
An animal with its young carried on its back and protected by its tail.
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 an animal hunted for its fur by the native Americans, which lived by rivers, put its young on it back when threatened, and had a terrible cry. The same woodcut is used in Thevet's Cosmographie universelle (leaf 1002 recto) to illustrate a "succarath" (a ground sloth or puma?--now extinct) in Patagonia. 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:
Natural history--Brazil

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