Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Three seabirds]

Accession number: 
01955
Record number: 
01955-3
JCB call number: 
F727 Z89b
Image title: 
[Three seabirds]
Place image published: 
[Hague]
Image publisher: 
[P. van Thol en R.C. Alberts]
Image date: 
1727
Image function: 
plate; following p. 80
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
16.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
12.6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
19.8 cm.
Page dimension width: 
15 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Three seabirds, one diving, one swimming, and one flying. Includes ships.
Source creator: 
Zorgdrager, C. G. (Cornelis Gijsbertz), b.ca. 1650
Source Title: 
[Bloeyende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery] C:G: Zorgdragers bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. ...
Source place of publication: 
In s'Gravenhage [Hague]
Source publisher: 
by P. van Thol en R.C. Alberts, boekverkopers.
Source date: 
1727
notes: 
This bird may be a kind of shearwater of the genus Puffinus.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1854.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Arctic
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject headings: 
Birds
Subject headings: 
Natural history--Arctic regions
Subject headings: 
Ornithology--Arctic regions