MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
66-304
Record number:
66-304-3
JCB call number:
Codex Z 6 / 3-SIZE
Image title:
[Table of Contents]
Place image published:
[London]
Image date:
[after 1698]
Image function:
leaf 1
Technique:
manuscript, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
43.3 cm
Image dimension width:
55.9 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height:
44.8 cm
Page dimension width:
57.6 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Table of contents showing location of detailed maps along the western coastline of South America. Includes islands in the Pacific such as Polynesian islands, the Galapagos islands, and the Philippine Islands. Each location includes a page number. Decorative elements include compass rose, angels, view of Potosi with Spanish flag, and birds. Also includes degrees of latitude and scale.
Source creator:
Hack, William
Source Title:
An accurate description of all the harbours rivers ports islands sands rocks and dangers between the mouth of California and the straits of Lemaire in the south sea of America ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source date:
[after 1698]
notes:
This map was made by William Hack, a London map and chart maker, from a collection of Spanish charts captured by the English privateer, Captain Bartholomew Sharpe, when his ship, Trinity, seized the Spanish ship, Rosario, off the coast of Ecuador in 1681. Among the booty seized was a derrotero, or a volume of manuscript charts of the coast with detailed sailing directions, captured as it was about to be thrown overboard. Hack copied this work for the British crown and called it the South Sea Wagoner. Hack never published his atlas (it was thought to be too important to grant access to the information in it), he did, however, make a number of copies.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1966, p. 21-25, 45-52
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1966. Originally in the possession of John Cleveland, secretary of the Admiralty.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
South America--Maps
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