Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: America
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Accession number:
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92-137
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Record number:
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92-137
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JCB call number:
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Ge750 G611.2 / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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America
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Creator 1:
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Gottfried-Berhard Goetz
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Creator 1 dates:
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1708-1774
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Creator 1 role:
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Delineavit
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Creator 2:
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Balthasar Sigmund Setlezkÿ
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Creator 2 role:
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sculpsit
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Place image published:
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Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]
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Image publisher:
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Iohann Christian Leopold
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Image date:
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1750?
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Image function:
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print
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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46.7 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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71.3 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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61.3 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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84 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Latin, German
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Description:
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Allegorical figure of America as a native American woman seated on an alligator holding a cornucopia and a parrot and attended by four figures representing different native American peoples. In the background, European soldiers arrive from a ship and erect a cross, and are greeted by native Americans with golden vessels. Cultural artifacts include war clubs, feathered headdresses and garments, ornaments, bows, spear, bird headdress, and dwellings. Also includes a wolf, sphere, shells, sacks of gold [?], and boat.
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notes:
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The image of Europeans being greeted by native Americans is taken from Theodor de Bry's depiction of Christopher Columbus's landfall in the New World. This print is one of four allegorical prints each representing Asia, Europe, America, or Africa.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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References:
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http://www.ulg.ac.be/wittert/fr/dico/go/goetz_gb_notice.html (Jan. 2004)
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References exhibitions:
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Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, fig. 7
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1992.
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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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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Emblems--America
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Subject headings:
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First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
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