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Peixes do Brasil : aquarelas de Jacques Burkhardt 1865-1866 = Brazilian fishes : watercolors by Jacques Burkhardt (1865-1866)

Title
Peixes do Brasil : aquarelas de Jacques Burkhardt 1865-1866 = Brazilian fishes : watercolors by Jacques Burkhardt (1865-1866) / Heraldo Antonio Britski, José Lima de Figueiredo, organização ; Marcelo Biancalana, tradução.
Publication
  • São Paulo, SP, Brasil : Edusp, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Burkhardt, Jacques, 1808-1867.
  • Britski, Heraldo A.
  • Figueiredo, J. L.
  • Biancalana, Marcelo
Description
473 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 27 cm
Summary
"Fishes of Brazil" presents for the first time the complete set of watercolors of marine and freshwater fishes elaborated by Jacques Burkhardt. This is the largest collection of Brazilian fish drawings by a single artist, of which only a small portion has been published to date. Burkhardt was part of the Thayer Expedition, conceived and led by the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, with whom he toured the Brazilian territory between 1865 and 1866. Burkhardt's watercolors were not limited to artistic aspects, they included important information, such as dates and locations, as well as handwritten notes, some of them, made by Agassiz. Professors Heraldo Antonio Britski and José Lima de Figueiredo contextualized this political and social moment in Brazil, rescuing its history. The book reproduces 521 fully drawn fish watercolors and dozens of details of their bodies, 133 are marine fish mostly from the coast of Rio de Janeiro and some of the Belém do Pará area. Most of the drawings are freshwater fish from the Amazon.
Uniform Title
  • Peixes do Brasil.
  • Peixes do Brasil. English.
Alternative Title
  • Aquarelas de Jacques Burkhardt 1865-1866
  • Brazilian fishes : watercolors by Jacques Burkhardt (1865-1866)
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Chiefly illustrated.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-472) and index.
Language (note)
  • Parallel texts in Portuguese and English.
Contents
Prefácio = Foreword / Constance Rinaldo & Karten Hartel -- As aquarelas do peixes do Brasil por Jacques Burkhardt nos anos 1865 e 1866 = Brazilian fishes watercolors painted bt Jacques Burkhardt in 1865 and 1866 -- Introdução = Introduction -- Aquarelas de Jacques Burkhardt = Burkhardt's watercolors -- Comentários = Remarks.
Call Number
JQF 20-492
ISBN
  • 9788531415531
  • 8531415535
OCLC
1111684842
Title
Peixes do Brasil : aquarelas de Jacques Burkhardt 1865-1866 = Brazilian fishes : watercolors by Jacques Burkhardt (1865-1866) / Heraldo Antonio Britski, José Lima de Figueiredo, organização ; Marcelo Biancalana, tradução.
Publisher
São Paulo, SP, Brasil : Edusp, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-472) and index.
Language
Parallel texts in Portuguese and English.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Burkhardt, Jacques, 1808-1867. Paintings. Selections.
Britski, Heraldo A., author.
Figueiredo, J. L., author.
Biancalana, Marcelo, translator.
Added Title
Peixes do Brasil.
Peixes do Brasil. English.
Research Call Number
JQF 20-492
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