COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
03-88
Record number:
03-88-2
JCB call number:
J819 Z73a
Image title:
De Pongo van Manseriche
Creator 1:
Daniel I. Veelwaard
Creator 1 dates:
1766-1851
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[Haarlem]
Image publisher:
[François Bohn]
Image date:
[1819]
Image function:
plate; facing p. 64
Technique:
etching and engraving
Image dimension height:
9 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of a village on the Marañón River. Includes dwellings (one in European style), men poling a raft down the river, and a man in European dress walking with a native American woman who leads a child by the hand and carries a child in a basket on her back.
Source creator:
Zimmermann, Eberhard August Wilhelm von, 1743-1815
Source Title:
De aarde en hare bewoners, volgens de nieuwste ontdekkingen, ... van landen en volken en van derzelver voortbrengsels en handel, ...
Source place of publication:
Te Haarlem
Source publisher:
Bij de erven François Bohn
Source date:
MDCCCXIX [1819]
notes:
The Pongo de Manseriche is a gorge in northwestern Peru through which the Marañón River runs before it reaches the Amazon basin. First discovered by Europeans in 1557, it was used by missionaries of Cuenca and Quito to reach their several convents on the Andean plateau. The Pongo, a native word for treacherous part of a river, is about 5-6 miles long, in places only 80 feet wide, and contains torrents and large whirlpools interspersed with rocks.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
http://www.fact-ind… (June 2004)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2003
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:
Peru--Description and travel
Subject headings:
Marañón River (Peru)