MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
69-620
Record number:
69-620-1
JCB call number:
E621 A959w / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Title page]
Creator 1:
D. J. Boons
Creator 1 role:
inve.
Creator 2:
Adrian Matham
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
t Amsterdam
Image publisher:
bÿ Jan Evertsen Cloppenburch boeck vercoper aende coornmarct in den verguld Bybel
Image date:
1621
Image function:
title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
29.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
30.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Title flanked by two allegorical figures representing the religious and political state is surmounted by a portrait of John Maurice [Maurits], Prince of Nassau-Siegen. Includes ten kings or rulers of various countries and allegorical representations of the four continents. America is represented by a native American with feathered headdress riding on an armadillo. She holds a bow and arrow. Also includes camel, horse, elephant, crocodile, scepters, crowns, swords, and allegorical figures holding a laurel wreath.
Source creator:
Avity, Pierre d', sieur de Montmartin, 1573-1635
Source Title:
[Estats, empires, et principautez de monde. Dutch] Wereld spiegel waer in vertoontword de beschrijvinge der rijken staten, ende voerstendommen des gantsen aerdbodems ...
Source place of publication:
t Amsterdam
Source publisher:
bÿ Jan Evertsen Cloppenburch boeck vercoper aende coornmarct in den verguld Bybel
Source date:
1621
notes:
Johan Maurits, prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604-1679), was colonial governor of the Brazilian colony of the Dutch West India Company from 1636 to 1644.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1969.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Johan Maurits, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, 1604-1679

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