COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07049
Record number:
07049-2
JCB call number:
E758 L591h
Image title:
Grandgosier. Flamant.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert]
Image date:
[1758]
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 112
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Pelican and flamingo.
Source creator:
Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775
Source Title:
Histoire de Louisiane ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert
Source date:
1758
notes:
Antoine-Simon le Page du Pratz was one of 800 Frenchmen who went to Louisiana under the entrepreneurial colonization scheme organized by John Law and the Company of the West. When the Company of the West was dissolved as a result of the Natchez Massacre of 1729, Le Page du Pratz returned to France. Fifteen years later he published the first account of Louisiana.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References exhibitions:
Been, A. Animals & authors, Fig. II: 7
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Mississippi Valley
Grandgosier. Flamant.
