Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Judges Cave on top of W. Rock ...
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Accession number:
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34378
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Record number:
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34378-3
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JCB call number:
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D794 S856h (copy 1)
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Image title:
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Judges Cave on top of W. Rock ...
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Place image published:
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[Hartford]
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Image publisher:
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[Elisha Babcock]
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Image date:
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1794
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Image function:
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plate II [2]; following p. 76
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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13.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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7.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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15.4 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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8.8 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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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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Elevation and horizontal section of a cave on West Rock near New Haven, Connecticut. Includes measurements. Item in the image is lettered for identification in key within the image.
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Source creator:
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Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795
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Source Title:
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A history of three of the judges of King Charles I. Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell: who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America; ...
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Source place of publication:
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Hartford
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Source publisher:
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Printed by Elisha Babcock
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Source date:
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1794
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notes:
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Three of the judges who helped convict and sentence Charles I of England to death hid in this cave in order to evade their pursuers. It was on West Rock just outside New Haven, Connecticut. A warrant for the apprehension of William Goff, Edward Whalley, and John Dixwell was sent to Boston by Charles II. In order to escape retribution after the Restoration, they had fled to America and taken on new identities in Connecticut and Massachusetts where they were protected by anti-royalist citizens.Evans states that no plate 7 was ever created. Plates III, VIII and IX engraved by Amos Doolittle; frontispiece portrait of Stiles engraved by Doolittle after a painting by Reuben Moulthrop.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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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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Geography, maps, city views and plans
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Subject headings:
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Regicides
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Subject headings:
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Caves--New Haven (Conn.)
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