Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] The Murine Oppossum of Terra-Firma. [bottom] The Vampire or Spectre of Guiana.
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Accession number:
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06944
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Record number:
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06944-53
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JCB call number:
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D796 S812n / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[top] The Murine Oppossum of Terra-Firma. [bottom] The Vampire or Spectre of Guiana.
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Creator 1:
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A. Smith
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Creator 1 role:
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sculpt.
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Place image published:
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London
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Image publisher:
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J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
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Image date:
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Decr. 1st. 1791
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Image function:
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plate 57; vol. 2, following p. 142
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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16.3 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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13.3 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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29 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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22.5 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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[top] A four-eyed opossum and [bottom] a tropical American false vampire bat with the severed head of a boar. Includes dwellings.
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Source creator:
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Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
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Source Title:
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Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam ... Vol. II.
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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 J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall
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Source date:
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1796
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notes:
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The four-eyed opossum, Philander opossum, is here mislabeled Murine Oppossum and is known in Surinamese as fo-ai-awari. The bat shown is not the true vampire bat of Suriname, which is quite small, but the false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum, which is the largest New World bat. The South American vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus E. Geoffroy, typically bites humans on the big toe.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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Price, R. & S., ed. Stedman Narrative, p. 678-686
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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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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Commentary:
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geographic area:
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Guianas
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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--Suriname
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