Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Biasou Primer Gefe delos Negros de Santo Domingo

Accession number: 
67-270
Record number: 
67-270-1
JCB call number: 
B806 D819v
Image title: 
Biasou Primer Gefe delos Negros de Santo Domingo
Place image published: 
[Mexico]
Image publisher: 
[Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros]
Image date: 
[1806]
Image function: 
frontispiece
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
17 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
11.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
19.8 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13.9 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
Portrait of Georges Biassou.
Source creator: 
Dubroca, 1757-ca.1835
Source Title: 
Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los Negros de Santo Domingo
Source place of publication: 
Mexico
Source publisher: 
En la Oficina de D. Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros
Source date: 
1806
notes: 
Biassou was a maroon leader of early uprisings of the Haitian revolution.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1967.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804
Subject headings: 
Maroons--Haiti