1.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Birds, snake, butterflies, and agouti]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1784
Image function plate [I][1]; vol. 1, following p. vi
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.6 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description An aberdavine or siskin, two butterflies, two seashells, a snake, an agouti, and an albatross. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes The agouti is a small, rabbit-like animal indigenous to and widespread in South America. The animal shown may actually be a paca, since it is spotted. The habitat of the albatross (family Diomedeidae) is the Southern Ocean.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Brazil
geographic area Guianas
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Natural history--South America
Subject headings Agouti (Genus)--South America
Subject headings Albatrosses

2.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Bird, moth alligator, fish, and seashell]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1784
Image function plate [II][2]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description An alligator, a bird called amadavade, an anchovy fish, an angel fish, a common angler fish, a moth, and a seashell. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Only the alligator is native to the Americas. Text notes that it is essentially the same as the crocodile, but then goes on to delineate their differences.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Brazil
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Natural history--North America
Subject headings Alligators

3.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Monkeys, bird, fish, armadillo, fly, and asts]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1784
Image function plate IV [4]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description An ant-eater fly, an orangutan, a pigmy ape, a tufted ape, an Arctic bird, an argentine [fish], an armadillo, a lizard ast, and a ten-rayed ast. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes The armadillo is a member of the genus Dasypus of which all but one member is native to South America. It has not been possible to identify the arctic bird shown.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Arctic
geographic area Brazil
geographic area Guianas
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Birds--Arctic regions
Subject headings Natural history--South America
Subject headings Armadillos

4.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Birds, ants, anteater, and antelopes]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1784
Image function plate III [3]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33.6 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description An anhima bird, an anhinga bird, an ant, a great anteater and lesser anteater, and three kinds of antelope. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes The anhima, Anhima cornuta or horned screamer, is native to Amazonian regions of Venezuela, the Guianas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. The anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, water-turkey or snake-bird, is native to the tropical Americas. The great anteater, Myrmecophaga, is native to Central and South America. The lesser anteater shown here is probably the pygmy anteater (also called the dwarf, or silky, anteater), Cyclopes didactylus. It is native to Central and South America and is arboreal.
Time Period
References (Aug. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Brazil
geographic area Caribbean Islands
geographic area Guianas
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Natural history--Caribbean area
Subject headings Screamers (Birds)
Subject headings Myrmecophaga
Subject headings Natural history--South America
Subject headings Anhinga anhinga

5.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Birds and fish]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate LII [52]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various birds and fish including: 1) the common gull, 2) the winter gull, 3) the spotted guillemot, 4) the guira-guacuberaba, 5) the grey gurnard, 6) the sapphirine gurnard, 7) the streaked gurnard, and 8) the gwiniad. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes The guira tanager (4), Hemithraupis guira, is found in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins, in Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, and Paraguay.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Brazil
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Tanagers--South America
Subject headings Natural history--South America

6.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Bats and a fish]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1784
Image function plate XII [12]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various kinds of bats including the great Madagascar, the horse-shoe, the long-eared, the New York, the sea (actually a fish), and the spectre. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes According to the text, only three of the bats pictured are native to the new world: the New York bat (4), is native to New Zealand and parts of New England; the sea bat (5), is actually a fish found in the West Indies and Brazil; the spectre or specter bat (6) is native to South America. The sea bat may be Ogcocephalus cubifrons. The vampire or specter bat is Desmodus rotundus. There are a number of bat genera found in New York.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Brazil
geographic area Caribbean Islands
geographic area Guianas
geographic area North America
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Bats
Subject headings Fishes
Subject headings Natural history

7.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Godwits and finches]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XLVII [47]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various birds including: 1) the cinereous godwit, 2) the great American godwit, 3) the red godwit, 4) the red-breasted godwit, 5) the goiaver, 6) the green goldfinch, and 7) the red-headed greenfinch. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Text states that the great American godwit is from Hudson Bay, making it perhaps the Hudsonian godwit, Limosa haemastica. The red-breasted godwit is from the north part of North America and may be the marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area North America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Godwits--North America
Subject headings Natural history--North America

8.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Bears, beaver, bird, bees, and fish]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XVIII [18]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.4 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description A brown bear, a white bear, a beaver, an Indian bee-eater (bird), bees, and a bib (fish). Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Text describes the brown bear, Ursus arctos, as being commonly found in Canada. The white or polar bear, Ursus maritimus, is found throughout the Arctic Ocean. The beaver is the only member of the genus Castor; the text notes its intellectual and social sophistication. Although the honey bee is not native to the Americas, other bees, such as the mason and leaf-cutter bees discussed in the text, are. The bib fish is native to Europe.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Arctic
geographic area North America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Bears
Subject headings Bees
Subject headings Brown bear
Subject headings Polar bear
Subject headings Natural history--Arctic regions
Subject headings Natural history--North America
Subject headings American beaver

9.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Birds and fish]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XLII [42]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 32.8 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.4 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various animals including: 1) the demoiselle of Numidia (bird), 2) the globe diodon (fish), 3) the short diodon, 4) the northern diver, 5) the purple-throated diver, 6) the red-throated diver, 7) the black and white dobchick, and 8) the North American horned dobchick. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes The globe diodon and short diodon fish or pufferfish are members of the family Tetraodontidae whose distribution is worldwide in warm waters. It has not been possible to identify these species, but the text notes that they are found in America. The North American horned dobchick is probably the horned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus, whose habitat is widely spread over North America; it breeds in Canada.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area North America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Horned grebe
Subject headings Puffers (Fish)
Subject headings Natural history--North America

10.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Ducks]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XXXIX [39]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33.1 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.4 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various ducks including: 1) the great black, 2) the grey-headed, 3) the eider, 4) the ferruginous 5) the little black and white, and 6) the little brown and white. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Text states that all the ducks shown are from northern North America (Hudson Bay, Greenland, or Newfoundland) except the ferruginous duck. The great black duck may be Anas rubripes; the eider may be Somateria mollissima; and the little black and white duck may be the barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Arctic
geographic area North America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Ducks
Subject headings Geese
Subject headings Natural history--Arctic regions
Subject headings Natural history--North America

11.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Fish, birds, and wolverine]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate LI [51]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 32.8 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various birds, fish, and a wolverine including: 1) the common gallinule, 2) the gambet, 3) the gannett, 4) the garganey, 5) the gattorugine, 6) the lunulated gilt-head, 7) the toothed gilt-head, and 8) the glutton. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes The glutton is actually a wolverine, Gulo gulo, found in Europe, Asia, and North America. Text mentions its presence in North America whose species would be G. g. luscus.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area North America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Wolverine
Subject headings Natural history--North America

12.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Fish, birds, and goats]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate LIII [53]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 33 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various birds, fish, and goats including: 1) the common goat, 2) the Syrian goat, 3) the goatsucker, 4) the lesser goatsucker, 5) the black goby, 6) the spotted goby. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom of image.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes The lesser goatsucker is actually the whip-poor-will or whippoorwill, Caprimulgus vociferus, which spends the summer in eastern North America and winters in Central America. Text notes that the bird was brought from Virginia, and says that the native Americans believed that the birds contained the souls of their ancestors killed by Europeans.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area North America
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Whip-poor-will
Subject headings Natural history--Central America
Subject headings Natural history--North America

13.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Butterflies]
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XXVII [27]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 32.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 18.7 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various butterflies including: 1) the brown hair-streak, 2) its underside, 3) the deiphobus, 4) the blue-fly, 5) its underside, 6) the broad green-barred swallow-tail, 7) the black-veined white, 8) the brimstone, 9) the lady of the woods, 10) female lady of the woods, and 11) copper. Items are numbered for identification in key in text.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Only the broad green-barred swallow-tail butterfly (6) is stated as being from the Americas in the text. It was seen in Jamaica and Brazil. However, the butterfly named and described is not consistent with the image.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Brazil
geographic area Caribbean Islands
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Butterflies
Subject headings Natural history--Caribbean area
Subject headings Natural history--Brazil

14.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Butterflies]
Creator 1 Moses Harris
Creator 1 dates 1731-after 1785
Creator 1 role del. et sculp.
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XXV [25]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 32.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 18.6 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various butterflies including: 1) the painted lady, 2) its underside, 3) the great tortoise-shell, 4) the gate-keeper, 5) its underside, 6) the New-York swallow-tail, 7) the greyline, 8) its underside, 9) the American zebra, 10) the small gate-keeper, and 11) its underside. Items are numbered for identification in key in text.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Text notes that the New York swallowtail (6) was found in North America and the West Indies. The American zebra (9) was found in America. The New York swallowtail is probably actually the eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus, which ranges over a broad area of eastern North America. The American zebra, Heliconius charithonius, is common in southern Florida and southern Texas. It is also called the zebra longwing.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Caribbean Islands
geographic area North America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Butterflies
Subject headings Natural history--Caribbean area
Subject headings Natural history--North America

15.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Butterflies]
Creator 1 Moses Harris
Creator 1 dates 1731-after 1785
Creator 1 role del. et sculp.
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XXIII [23]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 32.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 18.8 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various butterflies including: 1) the green-veined white, 2) its underside, 3) the cyane, 4) its underside, 5) the high brown fritillaria, 6) its underside, 7) the pearl-bordered fritillaria, 8) its underside, 9) the orange dappled, 10) the piera, and 11) the isenglass clouded heliconii. Items are numbered for identification in key in text.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Text states that the orange dappled butterfly is found in New York, Maryland, and the West Indies; the piera is found in the West Indies; and the isenglass clouded heliconii is found in Jamaica. The orange dappled is probably Hypolimnas misippus or the Danaid Eggfly, which may have been introduced from Europe with the slave trade. The piera may be Haetera piera, found in South America.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Caribbean Islands
geographic area North America
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Butterflies
Subject headings Natural history--Caribbean area
Subject headings Natural history--South America
Subject headings Natural history--North America

16.
Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-57
Record number
JCB call number D785 M388n / 2-SIZE
Image title [Butterflies]
Creator 1 Moses Harris
Creator 1 dates 1731-after 1785
Creator 1 role del. et sculp.
Place image published [London]
Image publisher Harrison & Co.
Image date 1785
Image function plate XIX [19]; vol. 1
Technique engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height 32 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 19 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 36.3 cm.
Page dimension width 22 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages English
Description Various butterflies including: 1) the Indian white-admirable, 2) its underside, 3) the purple emperor, 4) its underside, 5) the clouded yellow, 6) its underside, 7) the marbled-white, 8) its underside, 9) the white-spot swallow-tail, 10) the purple hairstreak, and 11) its underside. Items are numbered for identification in key in text.
Source creator Martyn, William Frederic
Source Title A new dictionary of natural history; or, Compleat universal display of animated nature... Volume the first
Source place of publication London
Source publisher Printed for Harrison and Co. No 18 Paternoster Row
Source date MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
notes Text states that the Indian white-admirable butterfly is common throughout North and South America. It may be Limenitis lorquini or Lorquin's Admiral, found on the west coast of North America.
Time Period
References (Sept. 2008)
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area North America
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Butterflies
Subject headings Natural history--South America
Subject headings Natural history--North America