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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0267
Record number:
0267-1
JCB call number:
E565 C785l [F]
Image title:
[Fort Caroline]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[pour Vincent Norment & Ieanne Bruneau,]
Image date:
[1565]
Image function:
plate; leaf Bii
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
14.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
15 cm
Page dimension width:
9.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Fort Caroline is shown shaped like an arrow on the River May. Military aspects include eight cannon.
Source Title:
Coppie d'vne lettre venant de la Floride enuoyée à Rouen, & depuis au Seigneur d'Eueron : ensemble le plan & portraict du fort que les Francois y ont faict
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
pour Vincent Norment & Ieanne Bruneau, en la rue neufue, Nostre Dame, à l'image Sainct Iean l'euangeliste.
Source date:
1565
notes:
The fort was built during the second French expedition to "Florida" on the St. John's River near present-day Jacksonville, Florida. The expedition was led by René de Laudonnière in 1564.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Visual categories:
plans (maps)
References exhibitions:
Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, Item126; Boucher, P. Nouvelles Frances, Fig. I.5; Cumming, W.P. Discovery of North America, fig. 211.
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565
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