COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
35311
Record number:
35311-7
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVL 10 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Capitaneus Johannes Schmidius in secunda Virginiam versus navigatione à Gallis captus, mirabiliter liberatur.
Place image published:
[Oppenheim]
Image publisher:
[Hieronymus Galler]
Image date:
[1619]
Image function:
illustration; plate 12
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
36.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Shipwreck off of the coast of France. A man poles a boat away from shipwrecks. In the background, the man lands on an island where hunters with dogs and birds greet him.
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:
On John Smith's second voyage to Virginia, he was captured by pirates. He escaped from the pirate ship one stormy night in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France. He took a rowing boat and using only a pike to help him steer was able to make his way to the island of Charente where hunters found him. 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
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
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Shipwrecks
Capitaneus Johannes Schmidius in secunda Virginiam versus navigatione à Gallis captus, mir...
