COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09189b
Record number:
09189b-2
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVL11 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Delineatio capitis San-Vincentii in Brasilia.
Place image published:
[Oppenheim]
Image publisher:
[Hieronymus Galler]
Image date:
[1619]
Image function:
illustration; appendix, plate 1
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
35.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Dutch ships enter the harbor of São Vicente in Brazil. Items in the image are identified in text at bottom where the various actions taking place are also described. Includes native American man and woman, how natives sleep in a hammock, church, burning sugar mill, towns of São Vicente and São Salvador de Bahia de Todos os Santos [Salvador], and ship on fire. Includes dwellings, scene of naval warfare, domestic animals, fortifications, compass rose, and boats.
Source Title:
[America. Pt 11. Latin] Americae pars undecima: seu Descriptio admirandi itineris ... qua ratione in Meridionali plaga freti Magellanici novum hactenusque icognitum in mare Australe transitum patefecerit ...
Source place of publication:
Oppenheimii [Oppenheim]
Source publisher:
Typis Hieronymi Galleri. [Hieronymus Galler]
Source date:
M. DC. XIX. [1619]
notes:
This work is translated from Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, Journal ofte beschryvinghe van de wonderlicke reyse, Frankfurt a. M., 1619. The appendix is translated from Joris van Spilbergen, Oost en West-Indische spiegel, Leiden, 1619. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 11. Latin.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 172
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Brazil
Subject headings:
Brazil--Description and travel
Delineatio capitis San-Vincentii in Brasilia.
