Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Britannia americana, of Beschryving der Engelsche colonien in West-Indien

Accession number: 
08927
Record number: 
08927-1
JCB call number: 
D721 O44b
Image title: 
Britannia americana, of Beschryving der Engelsche colonien in West-Indien
Creator 1: 
J: Goeree
Creator 1 role: 
del.
Place image published: 
Te Amsteldam [Amsterdam]
Image publisher: 
by R: en G: Wetstein
Image date: 
1720
Image function: 
added engraved title page
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
16.3 cm.
Image dimension width: 
12.8 cm.
Page dimension height: 
20.8 cm.
Page dimension width: 
16.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Dutch
Description: 
An allegorical image of America as a seated native American woman in a feathered skirt and headdress with bow and arrow. Includes a European gentleman, a native American man with a parrot and kneeling black [slave?] woman and child. Also includes pineapple, rolls of tobacco, iguana [?], unicorn, lizard or alligator, anchor, black men or slaves carrying a vessel on a pole, ingots of gold [?], ship, and tropical fruit.
Source creator: 
Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742
Source Title: 
[British empire in America. Dutch] Het Britannische ryk in Amerika ...
Source place of publication: 
Te Amsterdam
Source publisher: 
By Rudolf en Gerard Wetstein
Source date: 
MDCCXXI [1721]
notes: 
The artist may be Jan Goeree (1670-1731), a painter, draughtsman, engraver, and etcher.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Visual categories: 
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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 Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Emblems--America
Subject headings: 
Indians