COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
35400
Record number:
35400-4
JCB call number:
B722 C797
Image title:
Mine
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[André Cailleau]
Image date:
[1722]
Image function:
plate; vol. 1, following p. 297
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
16 cm.
Page dimension width:
8.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
View of a mine. Men descend a ladder made of a tree trunk to reach the ore. Items in the image are numbered for identification in adjacent text.
Source creator:
Coreal, Francisco, 1648?-1708
Source Title:
Voyages de François Coreal aux Indes Occidentales, contenant ce qu'il y a vû de plus remarquable pendant son séjour depuis 1666 ...
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez André Cailleau, Place de Sorbonne, au coin de la ruë des Maçons, à Saint-André
Source date:
M DCC XXII [1722]
notes:
Text describes the workers as native Americans who use pickaxes to remove ore and who carry the ore up in sacks on their backs. The ore is either gold from Chile or silver from Peru. No Spanish original of Coreal's voyages is known, and the identity of the author has been questioned. This book was later reprinted under titles: Recueil de voyages dans l'Amerique Mériodionale, Amsterdam, 1738, and Relations des voyages de François Coreal, Brussels, 1736.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Mine shafts
Subject headings:
Mines and mineral resources
Mine
