Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Title page]

Accession number: 
09186
Record number: 
09186-1
JCB call number: 
J590 B915v GVL9 / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
[Title page]
Place image published: 
Francof. [Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher: 
Apud Matth. Beckerum
Image date: 
1602
Image function: 
title page
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
26.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
18.1 cm.
Page dimension height: 
34.8 cm.
Page dimension width: 
23.2 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
Title is flanked by a native American man and woman. At bottom is a llama and at top a figure wearing a pointed hat with his feet on a skin rug. Includes feathered headdress and garment, cloak, and penguins.
Source Title: 
[America. Pt 9. Latin] Americae nona & postrema pars ...
Source place of publication: 
Francof. [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher: 
Apud Matth. Beckerum
Source date: 
1602
notes: 
The native American figures are taken from an illustration in this book and represent the people of Patagonia. A similar figure with a pointed hat also appears later in this same book to illustrate a Dutch visit to the Congo. This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9. Latin.
Time Period: 
1601-1650
References: 
Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
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: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Chile