Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Birds and fish]
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Accession number:
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92-57
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Record number:
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92-57-26
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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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[Birds and 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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1785
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Image function:
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plate XLII [42]; vol. 1
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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32.8 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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19.4 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 animals including: 1) the demoiselle of Numidia (bird), 2) the globe diodon (fish), 3) the short diodon, 4) the northern diver, 5) the purple-throated diver, 6) the red-throated diver, 7) the black and white dobchick, and 8) the North American horned dobchick. 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 first
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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 globe diodon and short diodon fish or pufferfish are members of the family Tetraodontidae whose distribution is worldwide in warm waters. It has not been possible to identify these species, but the text notes that they are found in America. The North American horned dobchick is probably the horned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus, whose habitat is widely spread over North America; it breeds in Canada.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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http://www.fishbase.org/identification/specieslist.cfm?famcode=448&areacode=; http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Horned_Grebe.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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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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Horned grebe
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Subject headings:
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Puffers (Fish)
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--North America
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