MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record 
Accession number:
34724
Record number:
34724-4
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVL5.1 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Nigritae non absoluto quotidiano penso, crudeliter ab Hispanis habentur.
Place image published:
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher:
[Theodor de Bry]
Image date:
[1595]
Image function:
illustration; plate 3
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
15.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
34.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Spanish soldiers observe and carry out the punishment of a slave who is flogged and has pitch poured on his wounds. Another slave is buried up to his neck while other slaves work in the mines in the background. Two men work a windlass.
Source Title:
[America. Pt 5. Latin] Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis secundae setionis Hispanorum ...
Source place of publication:
Franc. [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher:
Theodoro de Bry
Source date:
M D XCV. [1595]
notes:
This image is one of the earliest depictions of slavery in the New World. Slaves were punished if they returned from the mines without their quota of gold and silver. This work was published by Theodor de Bry and is derived from the second part of Girolamo Benzoni, Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, 1565. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 5. Latin. Imprint information from colophon.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 156
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
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 headings:
Mines and mineral resources
Subject headings:
Slavery

Nigritae non absoluto quotidiano penso, crudeliter ab Hispanis habentur.