COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02254
Record number:
02254-7
JCB call number:
J820 C891h
Image title:
View of Lichtenfels.
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
Image date:
1818
Image function:
frontispiece; vol. 2
Technique:
etching, aquatint
Image dimension height:
9.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
15.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of the town or settlement of Lichtenfels on the west coast of Greenland. Includes Inuit dwellings, garden, chapel, and beacon.
Source creator:
Cranz, David, 1723-1777
Source Title:
[Historie von Grönland. English] The history of Greenland: including an account of the mission carried on by the United Brethren in that country. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row.
Source date:
1820
notes:
Lichtenfels was a missionary settlement founded by the Moravian Church established in 1766. Some of the converted Inuit lived in sod houses.David Cranz, a German historian and missionary, spent 14 months in Greenland in 1761-62.Image placed horizontally on page.Cf. Cranz, [Historie von Grönland. Dutch], Haarlem, 1767, #03205-10.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Moravian Church--Missions
Subject headings:
Inuit--Missions
Subject headings:
Inuit--Dwellings--Greenland
View of Lichtenfels.
