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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
92-57
Record number:
92-57-5
JCB call number:
D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Monkeys, bird, fish, armadillo, fly, and asts]
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
Harrison & Co.
Image date:
1784
Image function:
plate IV [4]; vol. 1
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
33.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
19.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
36.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
22 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
An ant-eater fly, an orangutan, a pigmy ape, a tufted ape, an Arctic bird, an argentine [fish], an armadillo, a lizard ast, and a ten-rayed ast. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator:
Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title:
A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date:
MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes:
The armadillo is a member of the genus Dasypus of which all but one member is native to South America. It has not been possible to identify the arctic bird shown.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
geographic area:
Brazil
geographic area:
Guianas
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Birds--Arctic regions
Subject headings:
Natural history--South America
Subject headings:
Armadillos

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