COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
08303
Record number:
08303-1
JCB call number:
F618 S376i
Image title:
[Dutch musketeers fire on a native vessel shortly after navigating the Strait of Magellan in 1616]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Willem Jansz]
Image date:
[1618]
Image function:
plate; following p. 40
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
22 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
26 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Dutch in a boat fire upon a native American outrigger with a musket or gun. Native Americans guide the sailboat with rudders or paddles, one tends a cook fire, three sailors have fallen into the water. In the background is a ship.
Source creator:
Schouten, Willem Corneliszoon, d. 1625
Source Title:
[Journal ofte beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse] Iournal ofte beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse
Source place of publication:
Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Willem Jansz, op't water inde Sonnewyser
Source date:
1618
notes:
Text describes Schouten's voyage around the coast of Peru and Chile. Since the author is unknown, this journal is generally attributed to Schouten.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References exhibitions:
Cf. Klooster, W. Dutch in the Americas, Fig. 1.6
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary:
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples