COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04362
Record number:
04362-5
JCB call number:
JA675 T167s / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Societas Iesu inter Americae persecutiones, in pretiosum Adamantem Annuli Dei duratur
Creator 1:
Karel Skréta
Creator 1 dates:
ca. 1610-1674
Creator 1 role:
del[ineavit].
Creator 2:
M. Küsel
Creator 2 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[Prague]
Image publisher:
[Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae]
Image date:
[1675]
Image function:
added engraved title page; following p. 432
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
25 cm.
Image dimension width:
16 cm.
Page dimension height:
29.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
17.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Allegorical representation of the Society of Jesus conquering paganism. A woman representing the church (with a biretta and an adamant or diamond ring) stands on an anvil surrounded by devils wearing feathered headdresses who forge diamonds out of metal. Also includes keys, hammers, alligator, jaguars (?), dragon, native American with bow, arrow, and dwellings.
Source creator:
Tanner, Mathias, 1630-1692
Source Title:
Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans in Europea, Africa, Asia, et America
Source place of publication:
Pragae [Prague]
Source publisher:
Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem per Joannem Nicolaum Hampel Factorem
Source date:
M. DC. LXXV. [1675]
notes:
This engraved plate showing how the church is hardened in the fires of persecution precedes the section of Tanner's book which describes American martyrs. The author, Mathias Tanner from Pilsen, Bohemia, entered the Society of Jesus in 1646, spent most of his life in Prague, and became rector of the Colegio and Imperial University. The engraver may be Melchoir Küsel (1626-1683) or his brother, Matthäus Küsel (1629-1681), members of a German family of engravers.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1873.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Emblems
Societas Iesu inter Americae persecutiones, in pretiosum Adamantem Annuli Dei duratur
