COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01916
Record number:
01916-4
JCB call number:
F684 E96bl
Image title:
The Battel Between the Spaniards and the pyrats or Buccaniers before the citty of Panama.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[William Crooke]
Image date:
[1684]
Image function:
plate; pt. 3, following p. 54
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17 cm.
Image dimension width:
28.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
22.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
34.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Attack on a city in Panama. At top the town is engulfed in flames. At bottom is a scene of warfare. Built environment includes dwellings, church, fortifications, and ships. Military aspects include guns or muskets, lances or spears, horses, and swords.
Source creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Source Title:
[Americannse zeerovers. English] Bucaniers of America: or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar
Source date:
1684
notes:
Henry Morgan attacked the town of Panama in January 1671. In a daring attack, he captured the town which burned during the seige. Part I of the Bucaniers of America was written by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
Kagan, R.L. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, Fig. 4.11, p. 81
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1854.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Buccaneers
Subject headings:
Pirates
Subject headings:
Panama (Panama)--History--Destruction, 1671
The Battel Between the Spaniards and the pyrats or Buccaniers before the citty of Panama.
