COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07049
Record number:
07049-7
JCB call number:
E758 L591h
Image title:
Plan du Fort. Prisonier au Cadre.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Chez de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert ]
Image date:
[1758]
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 428
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
7 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Native Americans torture a prisoner of war. The prisoner is shown being taken to the place of execution, being scalped, and tied to a frame. In the background another is lighting branches in a fire. Also includes a plan of a fort.
Source creator:
Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775
Source Title:
Histoire de Louisiane ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez de Bure, l'Ainé, ... La Veuve Delaguette, ... Lambert
Source date:
1758
notes:
Text describes the process by which a prisoner of war is executed. Antoine-Simon le Page du Pratz was one of 800 Frenchmen who went to Louisiana under the entrepreneurial colonization scheme organized by John Law and the Company of the West. When the Company of the West was dissolved as a result of the Natchez Massacre of 1729, Le Page du Pratz returned to France. Fifteen years later he published the first account of Louisiana. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
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:
Indians of North America--Wars
Plan du Fort. Prisonier au Cadre.
