MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06296
Record number:
06296-1
JCB call number:
E730 C478h
Image title:
[Mythological figures with coat of arms]
Creator 1:
Antoine Humblot
Creator 1 dates:
d. 1758
Creator 1 role:
invenit
Creator 2:
Mathey
Creator 2 role:
Fecit
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Hippolyte-Louis Guerin]
Image date:
[1730]
Image function:
illustration; vol. 1, p. [iii]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
8 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
24.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
God (with winged hat and caduceus) and goddess [?] holding an oar flank a coat of arms. Kneeling before the coat of arms is a native American child holding a map [?] and wearing a feathered headdress. Also includes a cornucopia, anchor, fortifications and cannon firing, bird, ship, and native American tying up casks.
Source creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761
Source Title:
Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue ... Tome premier
Source place of publication:
Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, ruë S. Jacques, vis-à-vis S. Yves, à S. Thomas d'Aquin
Source date:
M. DCC. XXX. [1730]
notes:
Mercury, the god of commerce and trade, and a goddess representing marine supremacy or plenitude, flank a coat of arms. Antoine Humblot was a French draughtsman and painter who died around 1758.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures), Heraldry
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Emblems--America

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