Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Title page]
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Accession number:
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08922
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Record number:
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08922-1
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JCB call number:
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J590 B915v GVL3.1a / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Title page]
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Place image published:
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Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
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Image publisher:
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Theodori de Bry
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Image date:
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1593
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Image function:
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engraved title page
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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30.8 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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20.7 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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35.4 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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23.8 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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Inscription:
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1624 [under date 1593 and at bottom of page]
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Languages:
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German
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Description:
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Title is framed by an aedicula on which native Americans, man, woman, and child, eat human limbs. At bottom is a scene of cannibalism with limbs cooking over a fire. Two men in attitudes of supplication kneel at top, facing an image of the moon. Cultural artifacts include feathered headdress and ornaments, as well as a war club.
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Source Title:
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[America. Pt. 3. German] Dritte Buch Americae, darinn Brasilia ... aus eigener erfahrun in Teutsch beschrieben
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Source place of publication:
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Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
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Source publisher:
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Theodori de Bry
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Source date:
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1593
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notes:
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This volume contains accounts of Staden's two voyages made to Brazil, 1546 to 1548 and 1549 to 1555, and Jean de Léry's voyage to Brazil made from 1555 to 1558. De Bry included in this volume the account of Hans Staden, Wahrhaftige Historia ... in der Newenwelt America gelegen, Marburg, 1557, and Jean de Léry, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, La Rochelle, 1578, as well as two letters by Nicolas Barré dated 1552. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 3. German.
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Time Period:
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1492-1600
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References:
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Church, E.D. Discovery, 181
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1865.
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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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geographic area:
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Brazil
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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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Brazil--History--1548-1580
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Subject headings:
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Cannibalism--Brazil
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