Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Monkeys, bird, fish, armadillo, fly, and asts]
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Accession number:
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92-57
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Record number:
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92-57-5
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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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[Monkeys, bird, fish, armadillo, fly, and asts]
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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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1784
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Image function:
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plate IV [4]; 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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33.7 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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19.3 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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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.
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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 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.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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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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Arctic
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geographic area:
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Brazil
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geographic area:
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Guianas
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Birds--Arctic regions
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--South America
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Subject headings:
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Armadillos
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