MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
08984
Record number:
08984-252
JCB call number:
F706 A111n
Image title:
[Mermaid speaks to European men]
Place image published:
[Leiden]
Image publisher:
[Pieter van der Aa]
Image date:
[1706]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 25, [part 5], following p. 2
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Mermaid in harbor speaks to soldiers, men in settlement run from area upon viewing the mermaid, and in the distance men on a ship attack the mermaid. Includes dwellings, pots, cook fire, gun or cannon firing, and canoes.
Source Title:
Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1524 tot 1526
Source place of publication:
In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher:
Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date:
1707
notes:
Text describes the account of Sir Richard Whitbourne in Newfoundland when he saw a strange creature swimming in the harbor of Saint John. It came up to the ship and tried to get in but the men on the boat struck it until it fell back into the water. Having blue streaks resembling hair and a tail, Whitbourne acknowledges that it might have been a mermaid but he was not sure. This image is derived from Theodor de Bry, America, part 13, p. 4, and follows the special title page for Twee scheeps-togten van Kapiteyn Johan Smith beyde gedaan na Nieuw-Engeland ..., Leiden, 1707. This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1849.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Mermaids

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