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

Accession number: 
35311
Record number: 
35311-1
JCB call number: 
J590 B915v GVL 10 / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
[Title page]
Place image published: 
Oppenheimii [Oppenheim]
Image publisher: 
Typis Hieronymi Galleri
Image date: 
1619
Image function: 
title page
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
9.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
17.7 cm.
Page dimension height: 
36.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
23.3 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Native American man and woman flank a vignette with ships. The woman nurses a baby and another child stands next to her. The man holds spears.
Source Title: 
[America. Pt 10. Latin] Americae pars decima: Qua continentur, I. Duae navigationes Dn. Americi Vesputii ... II. Solida narratio de moderno provinciae Virginiae statu ... III. Vera descriptio Novae Angliae ...
Source place of publication: 
Oppenheimii [Oppenheim]
Source publisher: 
Typis Hieronymi Galleri
Source date: 
M DC XIX. [1619]
notes: 
This work was published by Johann Theodor de Bry and contains three parts. The first part includes two letters of Amerigo Vespucci describing his voyages to America in 1497 and 1499. The second is derived from Ralph Hamor, A true discours of the present state of Virginia, London, 1615. The third part is derived from Captain John Smith, A description of New England, London, 1616. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 10. Latin. Imprint information from colophon.
Time Period: 
1601-1650
Visual categories: 
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
References: 
Church, E.D. Discovery, 171
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
North America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Emblems--America