COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
34352
Record number:
34352-5
JCB call number:
D770 D757n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Admiral Anson's men in the dress of the Inhabitants of Payta.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[J. Cooke]
Image date:
[1770]
Image function:
plate; following p. 136
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
24.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
35.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
23 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
European man is greeted by other men dressed as women and gentlemen of Paita. Includes ship, boats, and British flag.
Source creator:
Drake, Edward Cavendish
Source Title:
A new universal collection of authentic and entertaining voyages and travels, from the earliest accounts to the present time ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakepear's Head, in Pater-Noster-Row
Source date:
MDCCLXX [1770]
notes:
George Anson, Baron Anson, was given orders by the Admiralty to raid Spanish possessions along the South American coast and to disrupt their trade, was famous for the sacking of Paita, Peru. The town was taken with only one man killed and the inhabitants fled without dressing, so that the sailors breaking into their houses, seized their clothes and paraded about in them, some in women's clothes. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Peru--History--1548-1820
Admiral Anson's men in the dress of the Inhabitants of Payta.
