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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07598
Record number:
07598-053
JCB call number:
E575 T418c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Figure du Maroli oyseau de proye fort estrange.]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre L'Huillier]
Image date:
[1575]
Image function:
illustration; leaf 994
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
9.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
11 cm.
Page dimension height:
36.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Bird with hooked beak perched on a branch with a snake in its beak and another snake under its claw. Long "ears" hang down to its throat.
Source creator:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Source Title:
La cosmographie vniuerselle ...
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
chez Pierre L'Huillier, rue Sainct Iaques, à l'Oliuier
Source date:
1575
notes:
Image title from marginal gloss. Text states that the bird is found near the "Cap de Cotoche" on the Yucatan peninsula.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1875.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--Mexico
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