COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07168
Record number:
07168-1
JCB call number:
D725 D314hA
Image title:
Historie der Zee-Roovers.
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Hermanus Uytwerf]
Image date:
[1725]
Image function:
added engraved title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
A female pirate wielding a sword stands in front of a pirate flag depicting a skeleton, hour glass, and skulls and crossed bones. A man [representing the wind?] blows on her while under her feet are treasures, weighing scales, chains, wrecked ships, and a man [Mercury, god of commerce] and woman [Justice]. In the background, men hang from the gallows.
Source creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Source Title:
[General history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates. Dutch] Historie der engelsche zee-roovers ... door Capiteyn Charles Johnson
Source place of publication:
Tot Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Hermanus Uytwerf
Source date:
1725
notes:
This work is often attributed to Defoe based on textual relationship to works of Defoe's proven authorship together with supporting external evidence.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Buccaneers
Subject headings:
Emblems
Subject headings:
Pirates
Historie der Zee-Roovers.
