Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Buffalo]

Accession number: 
05863
Record number: 
05863-2
JCB call number: 
E698 H515nB
Image title: 
[Buffalo]
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[M. Bentley ...]
Image date: 
[1698]
Image function: 
fold-out plate; pt. 1, following p. 114
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
12.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
16.4 cm.
Page dimension height: 
19.4 cm.
Page dimension width: 
18.2 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Buffalo. Other animals include a pelican [?] and an opposum [?] hanging by its tail from a tree branch.
Source creator: 
Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent.
Source Title: 
[Nouveau voyage d'un pais. English] A new discovery of a vast country in America
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship
Source date: 
1698
Time Period: 
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
North America
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject headings: 
Natural history--North America