Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Succarath or su]
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Accession number:
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03374
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Record number:
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03374-23
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JCB call number:
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E558 T416sa
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Image title:
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[Succarath or su]
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Place image published:
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[Antwerp]
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Image publisher:
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[Christophle Plantin]
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Image date:
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[1558]
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Image function:
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illustration; verso leaf 106
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Technique:
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woodcut
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Image dimension height:
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5 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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6.7 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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16.4 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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10 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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An animal with its young carried on its back and protected by its tail.
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Source creator:
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Thevet, André, 1502-1590
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Source Title:
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[Les singularitez de la France Antarctique] Les singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique
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Source place of publication:
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A Anvers [Antwerp]
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Source publisher:
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De l'imprimerie de Christophle Plantin a la Licorne d'or
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Source date:
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1558
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notes:
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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.
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Time Period:
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1492-1600
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1865.
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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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Brazil
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Brazil
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