COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0229
Record number:
0229-6
JCB call number:
H494 V476i
Image title:
Insula hyspana.
Place image published:
[Basel]
Image publisher:
[Johann Bergname de Olpel]
Image date:
1494
Image function:
illustration; verso leaf [33]
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
11.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
View of the island discovered by Columbus. Built environment includes a fortified settlement where a man is using a crane to lift stones.
Source creator:
Verardi, Carlo, 1440-1500
Source Title:
[Historia Baetica] In laudem serenissimi Ferdinandi Hispania[rum] regis, Bethicae [et] regni Granatae
Source place of publication:
Basel
Source publisher:
I[ohann] B[ergmann de Olpel]
Source date:
1494
notes:
This woodcut is the same as the one in Christopher Columbus, De insulis inventis, [Basel, 1493].
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Caribbean Area--Colonization
Insula hyspana.
