Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Columbus's Ship splitting on a Rock

Accession number: 
35592
Record number: 
35592-2
JCB call number: 
D789 J69h2 (copy 2)
Image title: 
Columbus's Ship splitting on a Rock
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[E. Newbery]
Image date: 
[1789]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 46
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
6.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
11 cm.
Page dimension height: 
13.4 cm.
Page dimension width: 
7.7 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Shipwreck. A ship splits on a rocky shore. Also includes figures on shore and in boats and another ship.
Source creator: 
Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 4-1793
Source Title: 
The history of South America. Containing the discoveries of Columbus, the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the other transactions of the Spaniards in the New World by the Rev. Mr. Cooper
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for E. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard
Source date: 
1789
notes: 
Text describes the storms which drove Columbus "on the coast of Jamaica, where his little crazy fleet was wrecked, on the 24th of June, 1503." Columbus's last trip to America in 1503 was made to vindicate his reputation, but it was not a success. He lost one ship, the Gallega, in the Belén River in Panama. He scuttled the leaky Vizcaina near Portobelo, and later abandoned his last two ships, the Capitana and the Santiago, in Jamaica. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
References: 
http://p208.ezboard.com/ftalkinghistoryfrm20.showMessage?topicID=37.topic (Mar. 2005)
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Shipwrecks