COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
10869
Record number:
10869-1
JCB call number:
D711 A881g vol. 1
Image title:
Atlas Geographus. A Complete System of Geography, Ancient and Modern.
Creator 1:
Bernard Lens (II)
Creator 1 dates:
1659-1725
Creator 1 role:
delin.
Creator 2:
John Sturt
Creator 2 dates:
1658-1730
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[John Nutt]
Image date:
[1711]
Image function:
fold-out frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
21.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
26.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English, Latin
Description:
Statue of Atlas carrying the world is flanked by figures representing the four continents, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. At the statue's feet sits a queen [Queen Anne] holding a sceptre and scales. Decorative elements include feathered headdress and garments, bird, lion, bow and quiver of arrows, incense burner, cornucopia, church, coconut palm [?], and gold.
Source Title:
Atlas geographus: or, A compleat system of Geography, ancient and modern ... Vol. I.
Source place of publication:
In the Savoy [London]
Source publisher:
Printed by John Nutt; and Sold by Benjamin Barker and Charles King ...
Source date:
[1711]
notes:
Herman Moll published his maps in a subscription publication that ran monthly from 1708 to 1717, when it was wholly republished in this five-volume edition.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1915.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Emblems--America
Atlas Geographus. A Complete System of Geography, Ancient and Modern.
