Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Account of America]
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Accession number:
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95-13
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Record number:
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95-13-2
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JCB call number:
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J719 H879z / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Account of America]
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Place image published:
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[Moscow]
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Image date:
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[1719]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 384
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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24 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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15.2 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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30 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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19 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Russian
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Description:
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An allegorical image of America as a seated native American woman [?] in a feathered skirt and headdress holding an arrow and shielded by a parasol. Before her are bars of gold, snakes, birds, and a kneeling man. In the background are two beavers.
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Source creator:
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Hübner, Johann, 1668-1731
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Source Title:
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[Kurtze Fragen aus der neuen und alten Geographie. Russian] Zemnovodnago kruga kratkoe opisan`ie
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Source place of publication:
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Napechatano v Moskvie [Moscow]
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Source date:
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1719
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notes:
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Peter the Great commissioned a Russian translation of Hübner's popular geographical work in order to improve public knowledge of geography. In the year of the translation's publication, Peter sent out the first Russian expedition to explore the possibility of land connection between Asia and America. Title and imprint transliterated from the Russian.
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1994.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Emblems--America
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