COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07166
Record number:
07166-1
JCB call number:
D736 J966g / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Captain Teach commonly call'd Black Beard.
Creator 1:
Joseph Nicholls [or Nickolls]
Creator 1 dates:
fl. 1726-1755
Creator 1 role:
delin.
Creator 2:
James Basire
Creator 2 dates:
1730-1802
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Olive Payne]
Image date:
[1736]
Image function:
plate, following p. 202
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
28.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
34.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
21 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Portrait of Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, standing on a wharf with casks and cargo. He wears two swords and a bandoleer with numerous pistols and knives. Also includes boat and ship.
Source creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Source Title:
[General history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates] A general history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c. ... By Captain Charles Johnson
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for and sold by Olive Payne, at Horace's-Head, in Round-Court in the Strand, over against York-Buildings
Source date:
M.DCC.XXXVI [1736]
notes:
Blackbeard, born Edward Drummond, may also have been called Edward Thatch. He was one of the most feared of all the pirates and he practised his profession along the North Carolina coast. He was known for twisting matches in his hair and setting them alight. This work is often attributed to Defoe based on textual relationship to works of Defoe's proven authorship together with supporting external evidence.It also has also been attributed to Charles Johnson.
Time Period:
1701-1750
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:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Buccaneers
Subject headings:
Pirates
Captain Teach commonly call'd Black Beard.
