COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01-124
Record number:
01-124-22
JCB call number:
E839 B473v / 3-SIZE
Image title:
41. Vue de la Savane des Juifs sur la rivière de Surinam.
Creator 1:
Pierre Jacques Benoit
Creator 1 dates:
1782-1854
Creator 1 role:
del.
Creator 2:
Paulus Lauters
Creator 2 dates:
1806-1872
Creator 2 role:
lith.
Place image published:
[Brussels]
Image publisher:
Société des Beaux-Arts
Image date:
[1839]
Image function:
plate XXI
Technique:
lithograph, colored
Image dimension height:
29.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
20.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
46.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
33.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of the Jewish Savannah on the Surinam river. Built environment includes a tent-boat, other boats, and dwellings.
Source creator:
Benoit, P. J. (Pierre Jacques), 1782-1854
Source Title:
Voyage a Surinam : Description des possessions Néerlandaises dans la Guyane
Source place of publication:
Bruxelles [Brussels]
Source publisher:
Société des Beaux-Arts; Gérants: de Wasme et Laurent Place du Grand Sablon, No. 11
Source date:
1839
notes:
The Jewish Savannah, the first permanent Jewish settlement in the New World, was settled first by Portuguese Jews between 1635 and 1639. During the first half of the eighteenth century, the 2,000 inhabitants of the Jewish Savannah constituted half of Suriname's white population. The tent-boat is described in the text as being used by rich people to travel from one plantation to another or to town. Image title taken from List of Illustrations preceding plates.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2001.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Suriname--Description and travel
41. Vue de la Savane des Juifs sur la rivière de Surinam.
